No se puede ser más perdedor que el agente Manrique: malvive con su raquítico sueldo en una triste pensión, lisiado en acto de servicio, denostado por las fuerzas vivas de Buga, con un único amigo, el locutor Soto -su Dr. Watson perticular-, otro glotón casi tan paria como él, que sigue confiando en que la extravagante lógica del policía le consiga el scoop de su vida. Acosado por su...

The Old Gertrudis, Melquisedec, Flor de Lirio ... a group of clochards that populate the streets of Quito, find themselves in a small police station after a police raid to "clean up the streets". Locked in a patio, the most hidden secrets are confessed, those that forced them to escape from life to take refuge in the solitude between the filth and contempt of society. Sometimes they are stories...

José, a boy from Albanuma, wakes up on a dune of an infinite sand sea. He doesn’t know why he is there, but starts walking aimlessly until he hears a girl screaming: it's Maria. Her father has just turned into a giant scorpion -a «jauriyashka»- and is attacking her. This is how this new age bildungsroman with pre-Columbus reminiscences starts. It is set in a devilish desert that reminds...