An eccentric and resentful abbess, whose mysterious death is announced from the first pages, a friar who has exhausted his life searching for God through reason, a quarrelsome marquis, his wife, Doña Hilda, who goes to the convent to swear her virginity, a strange lackey who makes paper balls, a cook who aspires to be a marchioness and, finally, the King who no longer steps on earth, are other characters that weave together this intriguing story.
