Luis, a journalist bored with his job and his marriage, is planning to attend a conference in Austin, Texas, but the trip is really subterfuge for a brief tryst with Camila, who has become the only high point in his life. But at the last minute he receives a message: "Let's leave it, let's just keep the memories". Dejected, and left unsure what to do with himself in Austin, he takes refuge in the university's archives, where he comes across a folder of letters from William Faulkner to his lover Meta Carpenter. Reading their correspondence helps him to reconstruct his memories of the affair and to reflect on his dull marriage, and to question how life would have to look for each day to be worthwhile. With high doses of truth and humour set in a strong narrative, Bergareche explores the universal theme of the fever of falling in love and the inevitable routine of a relationship.