Echo of a scandal

She fled in the middle of the night with blood on her hands…

Alejandra, an orphaned kitchen maid, is unjustly accused of murder, forcing her to flee her native Córdoba for the south of Spain. But nothing better awaits her there than poverty and hardship, and the young girl is determined to leave her old life far behind. Thanks to a fateful encounter, Alejandra heads to Tangier in Morocco, a place in the 1920s where anything could happen and anyone could hide. And it is there that the young cook decides to start over. However, a new life comes at a price – she must live in lies and deceit.

Decades later, a young American writer wanders the streets of Tangier, searching for inspiration for his next work. When he stumbles upon a peculiar leather case and the mysterious initials A. L., the young man becomes entangled in a story of old scandal, love, and danger that is far from over…