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Mariana Rivas is eighteen years old and has her whole life ahead of her.

Filomeno is fifty-two... and has spent his entire life learning to live in the shadows.

At the university, everyone knows him as the old janitor: a man marked by age, ugliness, and the silent contempt of those who believe someone like him deserves nothing more than to exist.

But Mariana decides to see him differently.

What begins as a gesture of closeness soon defies the unwritten rules of a society that judges what it doesn't understand: an age difference that scandalizes and a beauty that, for many, Filomeno has no right to touch.

Because loving Mariana means confronting something he always believed impossible: being worthy of being loved.

But when fear, desire, and the prejudices of the world begin to close in on them... the question is no longer whether their love is real.

The real question is whether Filomeno will be able to accept it before he destroys the only happiness he has ever known.