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Brenda would never have imagined that her daily life could so easily be tipped into chaos. One cold and rainy afternoon an encounter with a charming stranger sets off a chain of lies that will shake the very core of her life. Life on the planet will depend on her job and her passion for science.

Manuel Gerena is, above all, a man of the Andulucian people who sings to his people with an urgent and dogged solidarity. For this reason, he writes his own lyrics with passion and clothes them in timeless music in which intimate chords of lament and  communal cries of rebellion seem to merge. These verses define both his human condition and his critical sensibility.

Inspired by an episode that took place in Madrid in 1939, the narrator of this story recounts the passionate and turbulent relationship of her parents, and how her father's overbearing personality and her mother's weak heart set the tone for the whole family.

30th November 1803: a corvette sets sail from the port of La Coruña to much cheering and applause. On board are twenty-two orphaned children whose mission consists of taking the recently discovered smallpox vaccine to the territories of Ultramar. They are accompanied by Isabel Zendal, whose task is to look after them.