The impact of the Second World War and the political conflicts in Argentina feed into this novel by Onetti, which anticipates imaginary characters and spaces that will populate his later works.
A group of marginalized, whose only wish is to flee from the worn and dirty capital of the River Plate that no longer attracts them, wanders around a Polynesian island, Faruru, which is the only place in the world where you can do nothing without doing it. bad to anyone and without anyone being interested ... A paradise for dreams that ends up succumbing to harsh reality.