-An innovative and brave proposal.---El norte de Castilla-The novel grabs the reader from the beginning till the end.---lacajanegraAstor City in Manhattan is the perfect place for Franz and Cindy, who have run away from their origins and taken with them the burden of an inherited guilt. They wish to give Eric, their child, a safe home, but the new life they had dreamed of in a respectable neighborhood won't turn out as they expected. When rumors of a life-threatening epidemic spread, the drastic security measures to keep it at bay will become the worst of all evils.