 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Makorona Matatu anoratidza manzwiro aRuiz ekujairana nehupenyu muParis mushure mekusiya Chile mukutapwa. Kusiyana kwevapenyu nevakafa kunomiririrwa paFunchalense, ngarava yemweya inonhuwira yengano dze Caleuche uye Flying Dutchman yekupedzisira inoratidzwa nemunyori Jorge Arriagada zvinhu zveWagnerian pastiche, inomiririra diaspora mushure mekudonha kwemauto muna 1973kwakagumisa kamwe kamwe kuedza kworusununguko kwaPurezidhendi Salvador Allende kupinza chiSoshalism mutsika yezvematongerwe enyika yeChilean. Muchengeti wengarava ari kusiya guta rake rokumusha reValparaíso kuti afambe nenyika aine boka revafambisi vengarava vakafa. Mitezo yose yavashandi vari paFunchalense haikwanisi kudzokera kumisha yavo uye nokudaro panzvimbo pokuva norudzi, ivo ndevechikepe. Uku kuratidzirwa kwokufananidzira kwokufanira kusiya rudzi rwako munyika yokumwe. Bérénice Reynaud akataurawo mabasa ezvinyorwa uye emafirimu ayo Ruiz ari kutora mufirimu: kubva kuna Samuel Taylor Coleridges The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1798, Erich Maria Remarques The Night in Lisbon 1962 uye zvinyorwa zvaHans Christian Andersen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Selma Lagerlöf, Karen Blixen, Jorge Luis Borges naJulio Cortázar kumafirimu aOrson Welles The Lady from Shanghai 1947, Mr. Arkadin 1955 uye The Immortal Story 1968. 