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A classic Catalan work about love, family, and class during the Spanish Civil war.Spain, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Llus Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo - a beautiful widow with a shadowy past - puts a high price on her affections. In Barcelona, Trini Milmany struggles to raise Llus's son on her own, letters from the front her only solace. With bombs falling as fast as the city's morale, she leaves to spend the winter with Llus's brigade on a quiet section of the line. But even on "dead" fronts the guns do not stay silent for long. Trini's decision will put her family's fate in the hands of Juli Solers, an old friend and a traitor of easy conscience, a philosopher-cynic locked in an eternal struggle with himself.