Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind's eye, recalls events in his village near Huaraz when he was 10 or 12. His father is long dead, his mother lives with Fermin, secretly a sympathizer with the Communist...
The story of a composer who becomes romantically involved with a nightclub dancer chased by his ex-partner, while the drink "tamarind juice" is the perfect aphrodisiac.
