In a world where words have been perverted to the point of losing all meaning, children have taken power and have established silence as the norm. Along with this imposition, they have created a religion of the image, encoded in a monumental device that relentlessly emits visual stimuli, and they persecute any verbal or written manifestation. In this deaf and mute reality, a person called He (there are no names in this fable) tries to find a meaning to existence protected by three singular companions: a book, a monkey and laughter. Ricardo Menéndez Salmón brings together in this novel the major themes that have marked his work over the years, such as the loss of meaning of collective discourse, the death of the word, the legacy we leave to those who survive us, and how technology transforms us and turns us into a different kind of human.