Somehow, Joe Angel, the most famous businessman in the country had found Charlie in the backwater where had been hiding all these years, & arrived unannounced to give him an envelope full of money & a simple message: come back to the Capital to learn what really happened to Constanza -- the woman he loved -- on that terrible night decades before. At first, Charlie is furious that Joe should just re-appear, & with such an outrageous dem&. But by the time Charlie returns to the city to meet Joe, the tycoon is dead. & so begin Charlie Croker`s epic journey back into his own past. It is an odyssey which seems, at times, to lead right to the broken heart of the country itself. After a lifetime spent trying to forget, Charlie realizes that there can, finally, be a reckoning with his those he has loved & those he has betrayed, & the guilt that has been suffocating him.