In this novel, it takes us to the time of the recent economic setback in the United States of America, where people were losing the jobs they had spent a lifetime in. Nick is one of those people who worked as a writer for magazines for eleven years before finding himself unemployed, and so is she The case of his twin sister, Margo. After a call between them, Nick decides to move from New York to his hometown of Missouri, taking with him his New Yorker wife, Amy, uprooting her from the Manhattan environment and trying to integrate her into the Missouri environment. But, two years after their stay there and on their fifth wedding anniversary, the unexpected happens.. Amy disappears! What are the reasons for the disappearance? Was she drowned in the river, kidnapped by a maniac, or does it have something to do with her husband who is in love with one of his students, and who owes the disappeared wife a sum of money that he used to open his own business? After the police intervene, the loop gets complicated and Nick gets caught up in a trap of lies he confessed to the police, as well as the trap of Amy's obsessive diary. With the passage of time, the acceleration of events, and under the influence of public opinion, the police, and Amy's family, this novel leads us through a maze of complications, shocking us with a completely unexpected and shocking end in every sense of the word.