"It has a wonderful strangeness... A Kafkaesque narrative about our human desire to connect with each other."

- Kirkus Reviews

Since losing his job, Damián Lobo has been confused. He doesn't do much except give bizarre interviews to a cunning entertainer in a television studio he imagines in his mind's eye. One day, while visiting an antique market, Damián commits a petty theft and is forced to hide in an old closet. Unable to get out, he ends up with the closet in the master bedroom of Lucia and Fede and their little daughter's house.

Damián begins to observe the family from his secret hiding place, "from the shadows", working as an invisible butler in the house and forming a strong bond with this unaware family. He becomes increasingly sensitive, especially to Lucia's feelings, fears and dreams.

In this masterfully woven novel, Millás, one of Spain's greatest living writers, blends the fantastic and the real with dark humor to create a multifaceted narrative about modern family life, capitalist alienation and mental health.