1887. Alonso is a young Spanish Creole, somewhat naïve and unstable, born in a small town in Louisiana. Upset by the mistreatment to which he and his mother were subjected during his childhood, he sets out for the Sonoran desert, convinced that the lost treasure of Moctezuma is hidden there. Although cautious by nature, he is incapable of imagining the dangers that await him, much less that he will end up locked up, like some madman, in an asylum for the insane. An institution that hides, behind an exemplary external appearance, a terrible secret; a place where he will meet someone whom he thought long forgotten, and where he will have to face his darkest past. A story that, against the backdrop of the psychiatric institutions of the time, tells us about the fragility of friendship, the madness of the sane and the sanity of the insane, and how the laws of evolution and inheritance they became the foundation on which the idea of ​​"racial hygiene" would be built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Note: this book is in Spanish.
This used book is in excellent condition. 
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (June 9, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ Spanish
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 526 pages