The End of Man | The Case of the Dead Japanese Women
When the soul and the body no longer wear the same police uniform.
The End of Man appears to be a classic police novel, but its protagonist is a police officer in the middle of gender reassignment. Formerly a man, the novel begins on her first day as a woman: from Carlos Luna to Sofía Luna, armed with a brand-new ID card and a blonde — or perhaps brunette — wig, trying to make her way through the macho environment of the Homicide Squad.
On the very morning that police officer Carlos Luna is preparing to leave behind his former identity forever and introduce herself as Sofía Luna, a terrible murder shakes the Homicide Squad: Jon, the son of a famous historical novelist, has been murdered. And it seems that everyone connected to the victim is hiding something.
As the investigation unfolds alongside her colleague and former lover Laura, Sofía must deal with a society resistant to changing times, while fighting to keep both her job and the love of her teenage son.
In The Case of the Dead Japanese Women, still recovering from gender reassignment surgery, Sofía Luna returns to the Squad to investigate the murders of several Japanese tourists. The killer leaves graffiti in the city’s most touristic spots, and the victims seem to share, in addition to their nationality, another common trait: they are all asexual.
Sofía enters the world of organised tourism, where corruption is on the rise, and also the circles of asexual people, a large community in Japan and increasingly significant in Spain, who reject the hypersexualisation of modern life and whose favourite animal is the starfish. Fittingly, a starfish is always found beside the bodies of the murdered women.
Who is this serial killer targeting victims in the tourist heart of Madrid? Sofía and her team must work under intense media pressure, especially when the daughter of the Japanese ambassador — a lively young woman with somewhat strange behaviour — disappears.
At the same time, Sofía must reconnect with her estranged father when he is arrested for killing a man. The investigation begins to uncover mysteries that force Sofía to wonder whether she has ever truly known her father at all.
RELEVANT INFORMATION: The character is inspired by a real case: an English police officer who underwent gender reassignment surgery and suffered rejection from every aspect of life — professional, social and family. In the real case, the officer dressed as a man when visiting his children and returned to feminine clothing for the rest of daily life.
Sofía Luna, the protagonist of this saga, does not go quite that far. However, she does struggle to gain acceptance from her eighteen-year-old son, who finds it difficult to process the fact that he now has two mothers. The saga is composed of two novels: the first, The End of Man, and the second, The Case of the Dead Japanese Women.
Antonio Mercero wrote the screenplay for the film La vergüenza, directed by David Planell. He also co-wrote the films Quince años y un día and Felices 140.
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Miniseries, Film, TV Movie.
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish.
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