"Todo ocurre en una frontera, la que separa la sierra oriental de la occidental. Angustias Romero huye de la peste con su marido y sus dos hijos atados a la espalda. Los gemelos, sietemesinos, mueren en el trayecto, y, tras guardarlos en sendas cajas de zapatos, el matrimonio se dirige a enterrarlos en El Tercer País, el cementerio ilegal regentado por la mítica Visitación Salazar.Abandonada por su marido, Angustias luchará junto a la sepulturera contra un entorno hostil donde la única ley la dictan quienes van armados, donde el tiempo lo marcan los peces, las fiestas y los misteriosos juguetes que alguien deja sobre las tumbas de los dos niños, mientras el peligro y la violencia crecen hasta el último minuto borrando los límites entre la vida y la muerte." "Everything happens on a border, the one that separates the eastern mountain range from the western one. Angustias Romero flees the plague with her husband and their two children tied behind her back. The twins, seven-month-olds, die on the way, and, after keeping them in Both boxes of shoes, the couple goes to bury them in El Tercer Pa̕s, the illegal cemetery run by the mythical Visitaci̤n Salazar. Abandoned by her husband, Angustias will fight alongside the gravedigger against a hostile environment where the only law is dictated by those who are armed , where time is marked by fish, parties and the mysterious toys that someone leaves on the graves of the two children, while danger and violence grow until the last minute, blurring the boundaries between life and death. "
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