Igor de Carvalho

Set in Recife in the near future, Santiago is a writer who found success with his first novel but has since suffered a string of publishing failures. He makes a living writing pornographic literature in a world dominated by artificial intelligence.

When bandits take the town of Sertânia, Antão gets shot, arrested, and left to die. Bleeding out, Antão's delirious mind begins to recall the events that led up to the incident through a sequence of increasingly unreliable fever dreams.