Killian -\is a young m*an who ha%s #!n_
+ever le(]ft+] the(% !\remote \moun`!tai.$.ns of Huesca (S`p*ain) whi(,ch+, sa)w him grow u)p. *`In 1953, h:$e tr/avels back to@
` the )exotic Equ\*ato- rial Afri ,$can island of Ferna/\ndo Poo, in Spanish! Guinee, where he was b#orn, to (work in a cacao*? plantation alo*@ngs=][:ide his fat( her and his$\/ br*other. D-+urin [*g 20 years i*!n th!is@;( is lan(.d;, u$ n_til the t-r^oub)@l?_ed days of ind?e
pendence, he will  u;nd%erta#[ ke a %(journey to?;
!wards maturity a\@nd[ knowledge:, b[ ut will also have to de]al)@ 
_with pain^  and loss.