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The confrontation between aristocracy and commoners, tyranny and disenfranchisement, predatory power and the desire for reform, post-colonial syndrome and state-building intentions, unitarism and separatism, big business and foreign investment, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, high ideals and compromises with corruption, military coups and constant "saving the country".

This is a novel about the Latin American state of Costa Rica, fictionalised by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), which has recently won independence. However, despite the fictitiousness of the geographical location, the events described are surprisingly real, as are the passions that burn in the hearts of the characters. In Nostromo (1904), this acknowledged masterpiece of English literature and the finest of his novels, Conrad reaches the pinnacle of his artistic exploration of society and the mysteries of the human soul.