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In seinen freien Stunden streift der Internatsschüler Óscar Drai durch die verwunschenen Villenviertel Barcelonas...

In her early twenties, drifting and directionless, Marina Gibson fled the city for the countryside, and picked up a fishing rod for the first time in years. She was returning to a childhood pursuit and a passion passed on by her mother. Fishing overtook Marina's life as she grew enraptured by the quiet magic of angling and the silent mysteries of the river. The complexity of fly fishing, the ritual of casting and the music of the waterways provided her refuge from a failing marriage, a source of serenity, and a connection to the tradition of female anglers stretching back generations.

En la Barcelona de 1980 Óscar Drai sueña despierto, deslumbrado por los palacetes modernistas cercanos al internado en el que estudia. En una de sus escapadas conoce a Marina, una chica delicada de salud que comparte con Óscar la aventura de adentrarse en un enigma doloroso del pasado de la ciudad. Un misterioso personaje de la posguerra se propuso el mayor desafío imaginable, pero su ambición lo arrastró por sendas siniestras cuyas consecuencias debe pagar alguien todavía hoy.

The novel Carlos Ruiz Zafón wrote just before The Shadow of the Wind. 'Fifteen years on, the remembrance of that day has returned to me. I have seen that boy wandering through the mist of the railway station, and the name of Marina has flared up again like a fresh wound. We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine...' In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts...

Anfang der 1960er-Jahre eroberte der Schlager "Marina, Marina" die Herzen der Italiener und der ganzen Welt. Der junge Nino aus dem kleinen Küstenort Sant'Amato an der Riviera versteht das nur zu gut, betet er doch auch eine Marina an: die Mutter seines besten Freundes. Doch Marina beginnt gerade selbst eine leidenschaftliche Affäre mit einem Mann, dessen Identität Nino erst viele Sommer später erfahren soll. Bis dahin spinnt das Schicksal seine Fäden.