The author reconstructs the life of his great grandfather, Francisco Oller, who, at the age of sixteen, decided to leave Cassà and travel to France in search of a better life. And he found it. This book offers the story of an upright man, tenacious and hard-working, who ends up founding a grand empire in the world of French vineyards and champagne, far from his home. The novel carries the reader from Cassà de la Selva to Rheims y La Fosca. Written in evocative prose, the text presents a family history stretching from the end of the 19th century to the present day, passing through the First World War, the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War.