Welcome to a wonderful world where the highest human ambition is to become a work of art in the hyperdramatic genre, a painting or even a household utensil, a symbol of someone else's wealth and power. Now the artists’ canvases literally live, they breathe and stand motionless for long hours, decorating galleries and luxurious private homes. The great prophet of new art is the Dutch master Bruno van Tysch. To become a painting at his upcoming exhibition is the dream of any professional artist, including Clara Reyes, who all her life wanted to be used to paint a masterpiece. However, van Tysch’s paintings are dying one after another at the hands of a sophisticated killer, because high art is not only true life, but also inevitably true death, and the detectives who follow the trail will have to understand this with unbearable clarity. We protect Art, for it is the most valuable heritage of humanity; but are we ready to take care of people? Jose Carlos Somoza, a popular Spanish writer, winner of the Golden Dagger and many other literary awards, creator of multi-layered worlds where very terrible things are happening, wrote a brilliant philosophical thriller, an unexpected action-packed puzzle, a picture of black human nature striving for beauty.