Jaime Semprun

30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must face the mockery, refusal, ignorance and blindness of the men around him. They travel in gangs, in large numbers : soldiers, mercenaries or the like, on majestic, imposing horses. Everything is out of proportion to his thin, bewildered, innocent body ; he is the madman of the new city...

Takes place entirely during a meal (a family meal of course) which lasts from the year 1870 to the present. As history accelerates the structure of the family disintegrates.

The Father's Murder tells the day in the life of a young man who wants to kill his father at all costs.