During the creation of the screenplay, Octavio Maya was looking for a round pendant to give the idea of cyclic, a message that is present all along the story. As result of that research, one night Maya dreamed he was in the house of the famous Greek translator Cayetano Cantu, along with the Nobel prize writers Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz, who suggest him that the round piece would be like "the ring" of the movie "The Lord of the Rings."