Swearing to his dying mother that he'll find the father he has never met a certain Pedro Paramo Juan Preciado sets out across the barren plains of Mexico for Comala the hallucinatory ghost town his father presided over like a feudal lord Between the realms of the living & the dead in fragments of dreams & the nightly whispers of Comala's ghosts there emerges the tragic tale of Pedro Paramo & the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul