The novel's retired narrator is slowly but surely losing his grip on reality: he can no longer distinguish between past and present, he gets the urge to go to work and doesn't recognize his own wife. More than a tale about dementia, this is a love story with an inevitable tragic ending. "El narrador jubilado de esta novela va perdiendo lenta pero inexorablemente el contacto con la realidad: ya no logra discernir entre el pasado y el presente, de pronto quiere ir al trabajo y toma a su esposa por una extrana. Mas que un relato sobre la demencia, esta es una historia de amor con un inevitable final tragico."