A Nobel laureate paints a merciless portrait of Peru in the mid-20th century.
In a cheap drinking place, two meet: Santiago Zavala, the son of a wealthy Peruvian bourgeois Fermín Zavala, and the Black man Ambrosio, who once worked for them as their chauffeur.
Former master and servant; once, a chasm separated them, but today they have come together in a shabby establishment with the pretentious name “Cathedral.”
Should you be surprised? After all, they live in a country of equal opportunity, where everyone has a chance—an opportunity to slide to the roadside of life. By their own will or by the will of a wicked, spiteful fate…