Inspired by an episode that took place in Madrid in 1939, the narrator of this story recounts the passionate and turbulent relationship of her parents, and how her father's overbearing personality and her mother's weak heart set the tone for the whole family. With an Open Heart is a novel that depicts our country during a century of great change and pays tribute to a generation, the ones who remained in Spain in the immediate postwar period and who, without complaints or regrets, focused on survival. Employing the empathetic and curious gaze of a great observer, one who knows how to transform every flash of memory into fiction, Elvira Lindo makes her parents into literary characters so as to approach them with freedom, lucidity and wisdom.