The disastrous meltdown of a nuclear power plant in Northern Spain created a contaminated no-go zone and left the nearby provincial city and inhabitants in a state of shock and mourning. Three years later, while the city prepares for the commemoration ceremony, a mutilated body is found in a warehouse. Police inspector Hector Uria's search for the murderer takes him deep into the no-go zone and into his own past.
On March 11, 2004, the Cercanías network in Madrid suffered terrorist attacks that cost the lives of more than 190 people.
In the 1990s, an unscrupulous builder, who has amassed a large fortune with agricultural companies, goes into business on the Spanish coast. After the death of his brother, he creates a large business and urban development network that makes him the most powerful man in Misent, an imaginary city in the Spanish Levant.
