Text in Spanish. This remarkable novel exists as one of the most accurate narrative descriptions of rural violence in Colombia. The weight of events and the inherent state of war that seems to irremediably condemn human beings are the back drop to a sensitive account of the death of Juli-n, a popular activist murdered during a peasant demonstration. This event triggers an expansion of violence that transgresses society's every law-from media infiltration in the form of censorship to the irreparable consequences of ruthless crossfire in battlefields.