When bodies begin turning up in the tranquil English countryside that he has recently made home, a forensic anthropologist helps local police in a race against time.

The story of a passionate love between La Caponera, a palenque singer, and possessor of a gift that gives luck to the man who accompanies her, and Dionisio, a strange and introverted town crier, as they wander from fair to fair through the center of the country.