Alejandra is accused of murder and slips away after dark, crossing the sea toward Tangier.
In the maze of its streets she tries to vanish, taking on a new self amid the scent of saffron and heavy heat, though every alley holds risk and the truth will not stay behind her.
Fifty years later, a struggling author pawns his typewriter for an old writing case and discovers a single postcard inside.
The card is a faint trail left by a woman who passed into rumor, and it pulls him into a history of scandal, love, and betrayal.
Half a century has not been long enough to keep her secrets still.
