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End of the 19th century. León de Ubach, owner of an industrial Colony, returns from England with a splendid wife on his arm: Inés is beautiful, cultured, and thirty years younger than him. They are accompanied by Tessa, her sister, a hardened Suffragette who in London lived as a free woman.

Tomás' adolescent tension reaches a point of no return when he travels with his family to the small holiday town where they usually spend their holidays. It all starts to happen suddenly in an unstoppable series of events: the discovery of sex and violence, death, and transgression… Tomás discovers himself in a flash, as if unable to avoid his intelligence being one step behind his actions, until the dynamics of what is happening lead him to take part in an act he cannot forgive himself for. It is then that he feels obliged to sit down with the only person who can judge and pardon him.

Now ME is a call to the greatness which exists within every human being. When life challenges us we must wake up to the world of possibilities which each of us carries inside. It is a call to believe in ourselves and in our ability to make a positive impact through our will to overcome.

Aki Monogatari is an adventure novel set convincingly in the Japan of the start of the seventeenth century, a country where everything is changing: from the new system of government established by the Tokugawa following their victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, to the lifestyle of the samurai class, whose raison d’être is gradually being eroded by the long period of peace which follows it.