In his masterful style, Juan Sasturain drops us off at an airport in a city where the protagonist of this novel finds himself caught up a series of extraordinary events.

“I’ll tell you something, young man, there are people with very weak characters, but they look a lot like other people, more life-like than the person themselves,” says Don Nobody, the head of Similarity Inc., a strange company of questionable legality that makes use of people’s similarities to shuffle them like a deck of cards.

When the protagonist gets off the plane along with his father’s exotic orchestra at an airport in a European city, he has no idea that he will soon fall into the clutches of the sinister company, because he himself bears a certain similarity to…