The once-bucolic Catalonian village of Vidreres has been ravaged by a harsh rece
ssion, and now two of its young men have died in a horrible car crash. As the to
wn attends the funeral, a banker named Ernest heads to the tree where they died,
trying to make sense of the tragedy. There he meets a brutish trucker, who in b
etween Internet hookups and trips to prostitutes has taken a liking to Iona, the
fiancee of one of the dead boys. Iona might be just what he needs to fix his ta
wdry life, but she s mixed up with an artist who makes frightening projects. Mas
terfully conjuring the voices of each of these four characters, Toni Sala entwin
es their lives and their feelings of guilt, fear, and rage over an unspeakable l
oss.
