Irene, fed up with her boyfriend, her friends and her mother, arrives in Madrid and runs into Manuel, a young professor who is playing with some friends at the college bar. They don't speak that very first time, but each has noticed the other. They will go out together soon. They will discover a happy world full of songs. Life, with its trials and tribulations, will be something that happens to others. Theirs will be perfect. Manu will start to work himself out and will travel by obligation. Irene will finish her degree and will complete administrative examinations. What happens when nothing happens, but everything happens? Javier Zapata takes us to Madrid in the eighties and shows us streets, corners and characters so familiar that one has the feeling of having known them forever (or, perhaps, of having been one of them). A unique, emotional novel, tinged with truth and music. A lot of music.