Daniel, a fifteen-year-old boy who has had to repeat the first and second years of secondary school, is thinking of abandoning his studies. One day he tells his tutor this.

Spain, winter 1939. AMong the hundreds of thousand of people crossing the bordering seeking refuge in France, the Lamana family get separated, hoping to be reunited in the neighbouring country.

Readers will not find a linear narrative in these pages, for the plot is established by way of successive glimpses, which, led by the actions of the protagonists, exposes a series of deplorable human and social events, yet which are so authentic t