A collection of entertaining, high-quality literary texts. Following in the tradition of renowned Latin American authors like Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, Sergio Ramírez effortlessly captivates his readers and transports them into the twilight zone between reality and imagination, between truth and delusion, which is so characteristic of Latin American literature and is also related to the immense violence of the tropical environment that does not allow for our European securities and certainties. In a Nicaraguan village, an entire family squanders the father's inheritance in an outrageous manner. Stasi chief Mielke tracks down the defected soccer star Lutz Eigendorf. In Colombia, a soccer star is murdered for scoring an own goal in the crucial qualifying match for the national team. Fate intervenes.