A family longs to be on a TV show which does in-depth exposés of different real families every week. When they are finally selected they decide to change their lives completely so that the audience sees them as they want to be seen, not as they really are.
The random life and tragic death of Piter Eustaquio Rengifo Uculmana, reconstructed as a puzzle that gathers the acts, loves, crimes and sins of a man without more merit than that of bearing a name whose acrostic composes the word PERU.
Practically stripped of their own names, an old catchascanista who no longer has a place in this world, a young waitress looking for love among the travelers she serves, and a gravedigger marked by his father's crimes, flee their small town and the adjectives imposed on them
