Modern protagonist who survives a fatal car crash, learns he has lymphoma, and discovers he was adopted. He searches for his biological parents, eventually finding his father Berkano in a hidden cavern beneath the old monastery hospital. David shares his father's congenital inability to feel pain, which is demonstrated when he and his family are engulfed in fire.
David's investigation into his past indirectly connects him to Dr. Carcedo's former institution.
Berkano is David's biological father, separated for decades and living in hiding.
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