It is the story of what happens in a man's mind. Or the true novel of Manuel Cortes, dreamed by his son - with the parrot Heidegger in derisive trickery of his agitated conscience. Manuel Cortes, whose life could be summarized as follows: son of Spanish immigrants holding a bistro in the garrison town of Sidi-Bel-Abbes, in Algeria, became a surgeon, volunteered alongside the Allies in 1942, incidentally actor Tyrone Power - a detail that can be important to the ladies ...--Summary by Babelio.