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Today, Eñaut Oihenart is on the news, after years of being away from the Basque Country, both physically and mentally. The complicated farmer and militant Xalbat Barnetxe has warned, in secret, that there is some hidden agenda in an abandoned mansion on the Basque coast, and Eñaut begins to investigate what this dark business is that connects the builder promoters and the local authorities. The history of this palace, which was the last inhabitant of Théodore Vermandois, includes the forgotten Kingdom of Navarre and the French Revolution, II. The World War and the independence of Algeria, the decline of a great family and the survival of the Basques of Lapurdi. Eneko Bidegain, returning to literature, has invented a highly ambitious story, not only a political thriller that captures the reader, but also a mirror of the contradictions of today's society: the burden of pretense, the difficulty of sentimental relationships, the ritualized models of militancy, the servitude of journalism, the fate of the Basque language.