How many times have we felt ashamed, not by what we do but by being caught doing it? Without ever realizing it, life can become a collection of secrets that permeate our daily routine. Carmela and Nico lead a peaceful middle-class life until Olivia, the cleaning lady from Ecuador, threatens to shatter the apparent normality. At times entertaining, at others tragic, the novel dismantles the mechanisms of our conscience and exposes the underlying tensions of a world where appearances supersede reality.