João Tordo - Biografia Involuntária dos Amantes

On a sleepy road in Galicia, two men run over a wild boar. The sight of the dead animal on the road will lead one of them — Saldaña Paris, a young Mexican poet with restless blue eyes — to pull the first thread of his life's skein. Instigated by the poet's disjointed confessions, his traveling companion — a divorced university professor — will try to discover what lies behind Saldaña Paris's persistent melancholy.
The journey of discovery begins with the reading of a manuscript by the Mexican's ex-wife, Teresa, who died recently and marked the poet's life like a branding iron. The narrator could not have guessed (because we can never know the true consequences of our actions) that reading this manuscript would have the same effect on his life.
The pages written by Teresa reveal her adolescence in a Portuguese family tainted by disappointment: an absent and alcoholic father, an adventurous and mysterious uncle, an overprotective mother. But what stands out most vividly from those pages is the moving account of his first love, at the same time as grotesque and brutal realities begin to insinuate themselves into his life.

Confronted for the first time with the suspicion of this terrible possibility, Saldaña Paris plunges into a deep depression. Determined to free his friend from the corrosive power of evil, our narrator then composes, piece by piece, the involuntary biography of the two lovers.

A biography that involves unveiling the past, so that it does not irremediably contaminate the future.