A road near the Portuguese border, June 1977. Juan and Rosa, barely teenagers, have an appointment at a clandestine abortion clinic, but an accident will prevent them from reaching their destination. Almost twenty years later, Rosa and her son Iván embark on what is to become their life's project, at the other end of the peninsula, confronting a past that is fast catching up with them. End of Season is a novel about the strength, albeit sometimes poisonous, of blood ties; about the family secrets that doom each generation to repeat certain mistakes, and about how knowledge turns us into other people. Ignacio Martínez de Pisón creates memorable characters and an extraordinary mother-son relationship in this story spanning almost a quarter of a century, and discovers that the unresolved past is a dangerous trap even if we try to ignore it - or especially then.