Words, words, words... Weightless designations of objects, feelings, phenomena; words are ordinary, poor, sublime, crafty, intertwined into lines and stanzas, evaluating and seducing... They have incredible power of influence and can turn out to be dangerous, even murderous. The wonderful Spanish writer Jose Carlos Somoza, winner of many literary awards, in a fascinating novel, dark and inspired at the same time, invites you to immerse yourself in the element of poetry, which is controlled by the mistresses of words and dreams - mysterious ladies. The roles of twelve of them are defined, but there is also a mysterious thirteenth... Maybe she is the one to blame for many strange and terrible phenomena, of which literature teacher Salomon Rulfo and Raquel, a call girl, become witnesses and unwitting participants? For the first time in Russian!