La memoria velada

Barcelona, ​​summer of 1963. By day, Francisco González Ledesma works as a lawyer; by night, under the pseudonym Silver Kane, he writes—at a frantic pace—the pulp novels devoured by thousands of readers. Then, one early morning, a stranger named Carlos Santos shows up at his home with an unusual request: he is convinced that he is about to be killed, and he wants Ledesma to investigate his own murder. The following morning, Santos is found dead. Driven by curiosity, Ledesma begins to investigate on his own. In the deceased’s home, he discovers an old photograph taken in Barcelona in July 1936, featuring five smiling young people—one of whom is Santos. Together with Inspector Ramírez, the writer finds himself drawn into a disturbing investigation that leads him from the streets of the *Barrio Chino* and the offices of the Bruguera publishing house all the way back to his own childhood in Poble Sec and the early days of the Civil War.