Manuscrito hallado en la calle Sócrates

In Athens, the city where Rodrigo Rey Rosa currently resides, Teodora Jaramillo de Quirós, a Guatemalan tourist, recognizes her compatriot and introduces her to her companion, Rupert Ranke, a hitherto unknown Swiss author who will lead the author of Severina and The human material to his flat in the Greek capital to encourage him to edit this book. So far the story of a lucky editorial find; Let us now turn to the novel: Ranke, historian of classical culture and tour guide, is soon captivated by the charm of the beautiful Theodora, traveling through Greece with her husband, and her melancholic obsession with The Little Refugee, a sculpture of marble that he has seen in the Archaeological Museum of Athens and that is the living portrait of his son, who mysteriously disappeared at the age of four.