What Sebastian Dreamt

A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?

Rodrigo Rey Rosa, a Guatemalan writer, depicts a dream about cells in trees in a short story. Years later, he discovers an internment camp in the jungle of his native Guatemala, a camp that embodies this unsettling idea, brought to life by a doctor.