"En febrero de 1939, la guerra civil española da sus últimas dentelladas. Cuando un bombardeo italiano siega la vida de los padres del joven Román, también mutila su capacidad de amar. Pese a no estar enamorado, se casa con Beatriz, una joven de familia bien con quien tendrá un hijo. Pero todo se trastoca cuando él tiene que huir a Francia. Allí conoce a Teresa, una joven comunista con la que inicia una relación cuajada de secretos. En Barcelona la familia de Beatriz trata de protegerla del pasado «rojo» de Román, de quien no tienen noticias, y falsifican su muerte. Ella ha creado un bufete de abogados e iniciado una nueva vida. Pero cuando Román, tras unos años de exilio tortuoso, consigue la libertad y su pasaporte, siente que lleva mucho tiempo con el corazón lleno de ceniza y emprende un viaje a España en busca de sí mismo y de su verdadera vida, sin saber qué encontrará al llegar a Barcelona." -- Dust jacket "In February 1939, the Spanish civil war took its last bite. When an Italian bombing takes the lives of young Román's parents, it also mutilates his ability to love. Despite not being in love, he marries Beatriz, a young woman from a well-off family with whom he will have a son. But everything is turned upside down when he has to flee to France. There he meets Teresa, a young communist with whom he begins a relationship full of secrets. In Barcelona, Beatriz's family tries to protect her from Román's "red" past, about whom they have no news, and they falsify her death. She has created a law firm and started a new life. But when Román, after a few years of tortuous exile, achieves freedom and his passport, he feels that his heart has been full of ashes for a long time and he undertakes a trip to Spain in search of himself and his true life, without knowing what he will find, upon arriving in Barcelona." -- Dust jacket
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