A year after the murder of young Marcela, her family travels to a remote country house, intending to heal its wounds. But the trip soon turns into a collective hell as the isolation triggers a nightmarish insanity that some of them may not survive.
Chocó is twenty-seven years old; she has two children, a tiny wooden hut on the edge of a Columbian village, an underpaid job in a gold mine and a marimba-playing husband named Everlides, who gambles away the little money they have and forces himself onto her at night when he’s had too much to drink. Nonetheless she truly believes that things will get better. But then she loses...
