Helmut Sanchez, a young researcher in the employ of renowned Yale professor Werner Hopfgartner, by chance discovers a letter written decades ago by his boss mocking guilt over the Holocaust. Appalled, Helmut digs into the scholar's life to uncover evidence of Hopfgartner's hateful past. Soon Helmut's intellectual quest for the truth becomes a journey of justice and blood-one with unforeseen consequences.

Intelligent and literate, Sergio Troncoso's convention-challenging philosophical thriller explores how a man of Mexican-German heritage navigates a complex moral universe and how his experience reflects the tension between justice and righteousness in contemporary American life.