The gripping story of a woman and a man who chose to endure through the toughest times. The most intense and emotional novel in the cycle of the Episodes of an Endless War.

In 1954, the young psychiatrist Germán Velázquez returns to Spain to work at the women's asylum in Ciempozuelos, south of Madrid. After going into exile in 1939, he has spent fifteen years in Switzerland, hosted by Dr. Goldstein's family. In Ciempozuelos, Germán reunites with Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, a paranoid parricide, incredibly intelligent, who fascinated him when he was thirteen, and meets a nursing assistant, María Castejón, whom Doña Aurora taught to read and write as a child. Germán, attracted to María, does not understand her rejection and suspects that her life hides many secrets. The reader will discover her humble origins as the granddaughter of the asylum’s gardener, her years as a maid in Madrid, her unhappy love story, as well as the reasons why Germán has returned to Spain. Soulmates wanting to escape their respective pasts, Germán and María want to give themselves a chance, but they live in a humiliated country where sins become crimes, and puritanism and official morality cover up all kinds of abuses and injustices.