A unique tribute to myth, memory, and soccer as a secret form of poetry. A novel in documentary form about the most prodigious-and unknown-player in the history of Argentine soccer.

There is a legend barely whispered in the history of Argentine soccer. A name that does not appear in the rankings or in the archive recordings. A supernatural talent who never set foot in a first division stadium and who was never mentioned in the Buenos Aires newspapers. His name was Eliseo Alegre and, for those who saw him play, he was the best soccer player of all time. In a forgotten village in Patagonia, Alegre wove his myth in the shadow of the Andes, on hard dirt fields and in constant wind. He never wanted to be a professional, or leave the country, or even his village. He played because he had no choice. Because his friends, his neighbors, his mother asked him to. He came to soccer almost by mistake, but his skill defied fate, reason, and his own will. «There were twenty-one of us soccer players. And then there was him, playing another sport.»

Decades after his death, a group of relatives, former teammates, occasional rivals, journalists, soccer theorists, and silent witnesses gather to reconstruct this elusive figure. From home recordings and fragmented memories, they piece together a choral, contradictory, endearing memory that sketches the silhouette of a man who was a genius without seeking it, a star without ambition, and a tragic hero by choice.