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On her deathbed, María Francisca, member of a noble family of Toledo, begs for her children. The tension is enormous: no one present is aware that the young woman had progeny. Her mother denies the fact, but her aunts cannot but think that there may be some truth in it.
At the start of this novel the narrator confesses to his father that, twenty years earlier in the last years of Franco, he was asked to give a lift to some ETA activists. Thus begins a process of reconstruction of the things that have never been said between father and son, the reasons for their disagreements, hidden in their silences.