Venezuela is in the news every day. Hundreds of people have been killed, wounded, and detained fighting against tyranny. Set in current events, this novel reflects the struggle of those who leave the country in pursuit of happiness and those who are left behind. In the epicenter of this story is a Venezuelan intellectual who seizes the world through the window of his computer, yet lives in the middle of a social and political upheaval and in the midst of a personal cataclysm between soul and body, words and action, mind and heart.