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In Architect Mateo Gabin’s world, buildings talk. As a child, he is endowed with the ability to hear voices and experience visions from traumatic events in people’s past lives that are recorded in the frames of old houses. But Mateo is not immune to the tragic events in his own life, heading down a path of self-destruction as he struggles with the early loss of his father and a failed first marriage that takes the life of his child.
A chance meeting with an old acquaintance alters Mateo’s state of affairs. Retired detective Lazaro Vidal asks for help with an unresolved case of a missing young girl. Lazaro suspects foul play by the child’s abusive father but is unable to find conclusive proof. Mateo visits the girl’s house and hears a mysterious voice coming from within the walls. The voice leads him to the discovery of a diary written by the girl’s mother and to an unknown cellar in the house that had functioned as a torture chamber. But just as the reader believes the mystery has reached a resolution, nothing is what appears to be. As Mateo works through the case, he recalls events from his own childhood and begins to question everything: his memory, his family, even his own sanity. From intermittent flashbacks, the depths of his personality are pieced together. Like Mateo, the reader is unaware of how distorted reality is until the end.
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