It's the start of 2015 and in a short space of time the Valencian political landscape changes more than it has in decades... but the people who live their lives against the tide are neither willing nor able to stop.

Ángela, an attractive and successful journalist who never seems to fit in anywhere; Eva, a rebellious teenager who pushes her parents to the limits of their patience; and a young married couple whose idyllic existence comes to an end after the bir

At the start of winter in 1809, a badly injured deserter from the Napoleonic Army arrives in a small town somewhere in the mountains, a location which will become the heart of the novel.