For Tonight is a novel that masterfully weaves true situations and characters into a plot crossed by fantastic elements.Starting from a real event, narrated by two anarchists who managed to flee from Franco's Spain, Onetti builds a tense story in which a man and a girl must escape together through a strange city # In their flight from repression, they weigh the dead that are accumulating in his conscience.
Octavio Paz said:
"Onetti is one of the great writers of our language."