Modest and shy, Gloria leads a quiet and inconspicuous life in glittering Los Angeles, her existence centered around her job and boss Carl. Gloria is Karl’s right hand, she knows all his habits by heart, she understands him perfectly, she unobtrusively adores him. And he cannot imagine another life - without work and without Karl. But one day Karl disappears. Without leaving a single trace. And only Gloria cares about his disappearance. Thus begins her strange, hallucinogenic, in the spirit of Carlos Castaneda, journey into the unknown, into the mysterious and strange world of the dead, spread out in the middle of the sultry Mexican desert. Gloria ceases to understand where reality ends and illusions begin, she completely dissolves in the hot haze, ready for everything most unusual. And the unusual does not keep itself waiting... Jesse Kellerman, author of "Genius" and "Philosopher", offers the reader a new game - this time He builds his detective story on Castaneda’s esotericism, wrapping it in the shell of the classic American road movie genre. Trapping, luring with mirages, scorching with the sun and, as always, completely unexpected - this is Jesse Kellerman's new novel.