The soul's path

"Set in 1985, the novel is Claudio Demurtas' second narrative work. The main protagonist is a priest with a shaky vocation for an existential anguish which he cannot find the key to, thanks to the sudden discovery of sexuality embodied in Manuela. She is a very beautiful and very cultured girl, but a slave to drugs that she procures by prostitution. Don Emilio falls madly in love with her, but their story will draw to a tragic conclusion, making the pain in his soul unbearable, which she will try to soothe by leaving the sacristy and looking for other worlds and other spaces in Latin America. In fact he will encounter the misery of the favelas, the terrible injustice perpetrated by the established power against the masses of campesinos and their liberation struggle, in which he will participate almost unconsciously, dragged by the Christian inspiration towards the oppressed and the last and as a dangerous revolutionary he will be treated by the regime that will subject him to hard tests. It is in this context that his vocation will take firm roots, revolutionizing his life. "