Ram?rez Heredia plunges into the deepest recesses of an obscure Mexico. In the heart of the hood, where drug czars, the most corrupt of police forces, thieves, assassins and addicts, blue collar workers, shopkeepers and regular people, all go about their lives, the ?Holy Death? reigns. She is the patron of the quarter, the one they all go to for protection. It is in that corner of ?Holy Death? that the story begins, where people place an altar of crosses for their dead, where a mother is bent on avenging the death of her teenage son.
