The first in Robert Wilson`s Seville series, featuring the tortured detective Javier Falcon. The man is bound, gagged and dead in front of his television.The terrible self-inflicted wounds tell of his violent struggle to avoid some unseen horror. On the screen? In his head? What could make a man do that to himself? It`s Easter week in Seville, a time of passion and processions. But detective Javier Falcon is not celebrating. Appalled by the victim`s staring eyes he is inexorably drawn into this disturbing, mystifying case. And when the investigation into the dead man`s life sends Javier trawling though his own past and into the shocking journals of his late father, a famous artist, his unreliable memory begins to churn. Then there are more killings and Falcon finds himself pushed to the edge of a terrifying truth...