A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?
How does a starving and helpless vampire survive in an unknown city? The question harasses the protagonist in a Montevideo that she summons, with incomparable grace, the figure of the fearsome being that has become fragile, trapped in a destiny that she has not chosen and from which she cannot escape.
Four friends decide to spend a winter weekend in a rented house in a Uruguayan beach town called Neptunia. Once there, the friends begin to realize that the people are acting strange.