Poor devil with a disturbed childhood, a literary genius and irresistible charmer, an ordinary man disguised as a hero, a simple and decent imposter... which of these faces is the true face of Alejandro Bevilacqua?

Between Argentina, Cuba, Spain, and France, a French journalist attempts to uncover the truth about this man in a world dominated by well-crafted lies, relying on testimonies from a few who knew him: his last lover, former cellmate, arch-enemy, and even the writer Alberto Manguel himself, yet these testimonies are contradictory and unreliable. Amidst the thrilling lines of this novel, the reader must discover the truth.