Simon Bolivar. Liberator, greatest of the heroes of the war for independence, a man of legend. A ruler who voluntarily renounced power. Most recently, he commanded armies and commanded peoples, and suddenly - resignation... The last months of Bolivar's life are a period about which historians know almost nothing. However, under the pen of the greatest master of magical realism, legend turns into truth, and truth into myth. Facts are just a frame for the true plot of the book. And the very real “last journey” of the elderly Bolivar along the river becomes a journey from the world of the living to the afterlife, a journey along the road of memories, where the general will have to settle scores for the last time with everyone he loved or hated in this life …