Madrid, 1615. A young man recently arrived from Barcelona wanders through an icy labyrinth of deserted streets before finally reaching his goal, the miserable tavern visited every day by an old man on the verge of death: Miguel de Cervantes, the father of Don Quixote. The young man has a mission: to present the writer with a mysterious, antique chest. In return, Cervantes must tell him what happened forty years ago when he was a persecuted nobleman taking refuge in Barcelona on his way into exile. This is the start of a thrilling journey through the most enigmatic stage of Cervantes’ life, the six days spent in a turbulent city under threat from the Ottoman Empire. Those six dramatic days would change the writer’s life forever...