The year is 1837. The adventurous landscape painter Johann Moritz Rugends, one of the greatest landscape painters of the 19th century, embarks on a journey through Mexico, Chile, and Argentina. The book in your hands is not a biography, but a work that focuses on the very heart of the spark of creation; a dive into the deep, fictional waters of a single isolated moment in time. Rugends' secret goal is to apply Alexander von Humboldt's scientific-philosophical teachings to art as a whole; to the vision and expression of everything together. Rugends is convinced that only a stay in the heart of infinite and mysterious, incomprehensible spaces can truly inspire him. A brief visit to the estates of Mendoza gives him the opportunity to realize his dream. He travels to the plains of the Pampas, in an almost mystical wait for the defining moment; There he will be exposed to the monstrous spark, the superhuman price, and the experiential extension that will catapult his drawing abilities and lead to enlightenment, which will oblige him to create a new way of making art. But a strange and sudden incident that completely takes over his body and being will force him to stop his journey and change his life forever. From this moment on, anything is possible; because in his fictional stories, Aira also discusses literature, creativity, and philosophy, the moment of writing, culture, and time – each separately and all together. Perhaps this time, in 2022, thirteen years after his first book was published in Hebrew, after three of his books were met with indifference and misunderstanding in Israel, and after he has earned the undisputed status of a writer of international importance, Cesar Aira will finally be recognized in our regions as one of the vital, innovative, and genius creators currently active in the world of literature, thought, and art.