Jaime Semprun

30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must face the mockery, refusal, ignorance and blindness of the men around him. They travel in gangs, in large numbers : soldiers, mercenaries or the like, on majestic, imposing horses. Everything is out of proportion to his thin, bewildered, innocent body ; he is the madman of the new city...

The Father's Murder tells the day in the life of a young man who wants to kill his father at all costs.

Takes place entirely during a meal (a family meal of course) which lasts from the year 1870 to the present. As history accelerates the structure of the family disintegrates.