"Under these circumstances, writing is the most useless thing in the world," thinks an undocumented Ecuadorian writer in Spain, desperate because she has been offering herself on websites for several days as a babysitter, cleaner or cook, but no one calls her.
As a last resort, hardly waiting for a response, she leaves an ad on the web offering herself as a scribe for anyone who wants to turn their personal story into a book.
In an hour, a man named Alberto contacts her, wants to hire her, and invites her to an isolated house in the countryside where he lives alone with two ferocious Dobermann dogs.
"See m ...
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