When a beautiful art student Leonora disappears, her next-door neighbor, Maite, embarks on a search for her. Maite soon uncovers Leonora's secret life of student radicals and dissidents. Another searcher is a musician named Elvis, a lunk-headed goon who is searching not only Leonora but possibly his own soul. Maite and Elvis's paths intertwine in this thrilling story, set in politically fraught 1970s Mexico, by the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.