French detective Tierno Mesurado travels to Miami at the behest of the wealthy husband of the woman he loves, Iris Arco, a Cuban-born former model, who has been receiving threats that may be connected with her modeling days.

"Winner of the prestigious Azoriń Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar. A writer resembling Zoé Valdés--a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter-is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the art world's avant-garde. Dora...

Yocandra lives on the iland/prison of Cuba. But she feels the revolution's ideas have gone away, and she lives a surreal life. All she can do is try to escape from the lethargy of the daily reality.