Máximo Pradera

A torrid morning in July in the center of Madrid. Our protagonist, a doctor who has become a ruined homeopath, receives a call from his ex-wife, who makes a surreal proposal: forgive him the months of alimony that he owes him, for the custody of the child they have in common, in exchange for let him house his only brother: a genius chemist in a long depression who has found comfort in the novels of Conan Doyle. He has become so obsessed with the character...