A short and shocking novel set in a small port deep in the Orinoco jungle... The tense calm of life at the Port is broken when the rumor spreads that there is a huge vein of gold in the local mine. And the protagonist is Eva, a young single mother who fled the city and accepted a job as a nurse at Indira Port to hide and stay away from drugs and parties, and there she found friends, love, a social cause to fight for, a place in the world, and who knows if also death.