Struggling author David Martin, upset over losing his lover to another man and trying to find success, takes an assignment to write a book that the editor promises will make him immortal and is thrown into a web of long-buried secrets, double-crosses, and madness.
The author presents a personal portrait of Barcelona and its two-thousand-year history and weaves politics, food, architecture, sports, myth, and music into a depiction of the Catalan seaport.
