Miqui Otero has reached new heights with one of the most moving and authentic novels of recent years. A novel full of places and people to keep coming back to. This book is an entire life. The life of Simón. Who opens his eyes in a bar, between two families who do not speak to each other. Who grows up looking for his cousin, the one who promised him the life of a novel and disappeared. Who learns what friendship is with Estela. Who tries out the recipes he learnt in the bar in fancy restaurants. Who makes himself out to be a hero in yachts and billiards. Who forces himself to keep moving forward in journeys that are actually escapes. Who falls in love too often and too badly. Who soon realises that heroes don't exist, fortunes are there for a reason and damsels don't expect to be rescued. Simón. Who one day returns. He returns to start once more, this time for real, the novel of his life.