Familiar to the reader from the novels “The Rich Also Cry” and “Marianne’s Happy Tears,” Luis Alberto and Marianna Salvatierra realize their cherished dream and set off on an exciting trip around the world on the fashionable ocean liner “Santa Rosa.” And if the first part of the trip is spent in pleasure and entertainment, the second brings unexpected troubles to our heroes. The reason for this is a fatal meeting with a ruthless, calculating criminal. The spouses are separated, and, it would seem, forever...