A reporter receives the proposal to investigate the hazardous life of his great-grandmother, a woman of whom it is only known that she fled to Spain abandoning her husband and son a little before the Spanish Civil War broke out. To rescue her from oblivion he must reconstruct her story from the very beginnings, fitting together the pieces of the extraordinary puzzle of her existence.

Marked by the men in her life – the businessman Santiago Carranza, the revolutionary Pierre Comte, the American journalist Albert James and the military doctor closely bonded to Nazism Max von Schumann – the story of Amelia Garayoa is that of a woman who learned that in life you cannot go back to the past and undo it. From the Spanish Republic to the fall of the Berlin wall, going through the Second World War and the dark years of the Cold War, this bourgeois and revolutionary, wife and lover, spy and assassin, will always act in accordance to her principles, confronting all and making some mistakes which she will never pay for.

Julia Navarro’s eagerly awaited novel is a magnificent portrait of those who lived with passion and intensity the turbulent 20th century.