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Vicente Parra, examining magistrate of the Ertzaintza Basque police force, based in the old quarter of San Sebastian, is assigned two apparently very different cases. The fashion designer Elena Castaño has been savagely stabbed in her mansion and, although the evidence suggests burglary, it soon becomes clear that it is a personal crime disguised as an attack.

On many afternoons, after fishing for a while “granddad would take me home”. There, the young narrator of this story will understand, much more so than he would in front of the sea, what it means to be a fish wounded by the “cruelty” of the hook. But he will also remember that all fish “big or small, with or without strong teeth” fight right up until the last moment in order not to be caught.

On May 4th, 2001, Antonio Altarriba's father committed suicide. So ended a life marked by failure and frustration. Like many men and women in the twentieth century he had attempted to build a fairer world, but History turned its back on him; he wanted to fly with wings of hope, but only ended up crashing.

“The art of the century xx in his exhibitions: 1945-2007” focuses on the exhibitions that have generated new ways of viewing and expressing reality.