Senator
Onesimo
Sanchez
had
six
months
and
eleven
days
to
go
before
his
death
when
he
found
the
woman
of
his
life.
He
met
her
in
Rosal
del
Virrey,
an
illusory
village
which
by
night
was
the
furtive
wharf
for
smugglers'
ships,
and
on
the
other
hand,
in
broad
daylight
looked
like
the
most
useless
inlet
on
the
desert,
facing
a
sea
that
was
arid
and
without
direction
and
so
far
from
everything
no
one
would
have
suspected
that
someone
capable
of
changing
the
destiny
of
anyone
live
there.
Even
its
name
was
a
kind
of
joke,
because
the
only
rose
in
that
village
was
being
worn
by
Senator
Onesimo
Sanchez
himself
on
the
same
afternoon
when
he
met
Laura
Farina.