Over the past decade, Vicente Villatoro (Terrassa, 1957) has expressed his creativity like never before in his career. In addition to publishing an ambitious narrative trio on identity – which concluded with The grandparents' house (Proa, 2021)–, has written essays such as Too Much Fire: Extremely Apocryphal Dialogues between Savonarola and Machiavelli (Pórtico, 2018) and has made known Sant Llorenç del Munt: a biography (Symbol, 2025), a personal and collective journey through the massif located between the Vallès Occidental and Bages regions.

The time in which the action takes place Polish, Vicenç Villatoro's return to fictional novels (Terrassa, 1957) after four very notable books focused on personal, family, and community memory, is decisive. It's January 1992, in the midst of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a generator of uncertainty, speculation, and geopolitical disorder at all levels. We are, moreover, in Warsaw, the capital of the ever-punished Poland, a border space—more uncertainty, more speculation, more disorder—between the capitalist bloc and the Soviet bloc. To further unravel the skein, we follow the steps of a widowed, now-retired Israeli spy who has been reactivated to carry out one last mission: to participate in a purchase and sale operation of unknown war material between unknown sellers (former KGB agents).