Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
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Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Pietro, a shy teenager,inadvertently discovers that the mayor of Borgo Alamo’s son -Tommaso Pastore,nicknamed the Ox - is having relations with another boy from the village. TheOx, fearing that the story will leak out, drowns Pietro and buys his lover’s silence.The mayor, in order to saveTommaso, looks for a scapegoat to keep his son out of prison, so he contactsLandi - the alcoholic father of a boy who was maimed in an accident - offeringhim an enticing compensation in place of his son’s freedom. Things go wrong,and the Ox must serve his time in prison. Only many years later, having beenreleased from jail, will the Ox try to redeem himself when he meets Chiara, thedaughter of another Borgo Alamo 'outsider.' Unrecognized and abandoned by herfather and forced to live with her drug-addicted mother, Chiara decides to runaway, knowing full well that her mother’s debts with the Albanian underworldwill have to be paid, one way or another. In the unlikely and shaky bond thatis forged between the two, we glimpse their only chance for redemption forthese two characters, who will discover how expensive certain debts are to payoff.
