It is 1963, and in her mansion in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Joana idles her days away, banished by her husband and alienated from her family. Meanwhile, in Barcelona, her daughter, Carla, is in trouble.
Hating all her parents stand for, Carla has embraced the student movement against the Franco regime, but her father has been watching her, and her beloved fiance is arrested. Terrified and powerless, pregnant Carla runs to her grandmother Maria, but they know their movements are still being followed.
Why did her daughter, Joana, marry into the Franco regime and abandon her family? Maria has never understood.
This is the story of three generations of women torn apart by the Spanish Civil War.
Genre: General Fiction
Hating all her parents stand for, Carla has embraced the student movement against the Franco regime, but her father has been watching her, and her beloved fiance is arrested. Terrified and powerless, pregnant Carla runs to her grandmother Maria, but they know their movements are still being followed.
Why did her daughter, Joana, marry into the Franco regime and abandon her family? Maria has never understood.
This is the story of three generations of women torn apart by the Spanish Civil War.
Genre: General Fiction
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