With this new novel by José Luís Peixoto we follow, between 1931 and 2021, the biography of a famous man that the reader will have to identify - in parallel with the country's history during those years. In the Alentejo of the borderland, smuggling is resistance in the face of poverty, just as it is a metaphor for the multiple and imprecise borders that surround existence and literature. Through this entrance, one reaches very far, without ever forgetting one's origins. In a journey of several generations, touched by the Spanish Civil War, by the 25th April, by figures like Marcelo Caetano or Mário Soares and Felipe González, this is also a novel about age, about life against death, about the deep and ancestral love of a family gathered around the patriarch at their Sunday lunch.