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El comité de la noche
Two women start a campaign against the trafficking and dealing in blood, in life. After losing her job in a Spain that seems to be heading nowhere Álex returns with her daughter to her parents' home.; from there she writes down her reasons for joining the Night Committee, an underground group that has decided to actively confront the barbarity of the present day. Carla works in a company dealing in Haemoglobin derivatives in Bratislava where, by illegal means, she is lobbying for the privatisation of the blood donation system. Torn between her affections, corruption and loyalty, she gets in contact with a freelance scribe. Carla and the enigmatic scribe radically transform the nature of their relationship and leave a record of what is happening. In this novel, the action is telling what's happening on the outside in order to understand what's happening inside.