Story Summary

Sabino falls in love with Natalia, a girl he meets on the bus. The two start going out together, but every time Sabino accompanies her to her street she refuses to let him follow her round a corner where she carries on alone.

A few weeks later, Natalia dies in a fatal traffic accident. When Sabino finds out, he discovers that she was not travelling alone and that her companion was a man nicknamed El Turco (The Turk), who also died. The police take Sabino's statement and he learns that the girl was not who she said she was. To begin with, her name was not even Natalia.