ALGAIDA 2017

Damián Ferrer has already turned 50 and is unemployed. He has a teenage daughter and has yet to overcome the trauma of his divorce.

He is a typical victim of the latest international financial collapse: he was abruptly fired after more than twenty years working for a direct marketing company. When offered a modest job as a concierge in a central building in the Valencian capital where he lives, he doesn’t hesitate for a second.

He is willing to take any low-stress job that allows him to get by. He no longer aspires to much more. Above all, he has no desire for complications.

However, what awaits him is precisely that: complications.

And in such magnitude and of such a nature that they will completely exceed his capacity to process.

But the push that will send him sliding down a true spiral of madness and horror does not come directly to him—it happens to an unfortunate and unknown woman on a subway platform. This absurd murder, which the protagonist witnesses purely by accident, will be the first clue to the ultimate truth he is about to uncover: that no caution, no rational principle of prudence, can entirely spare us from the relentless cruelty of the world.