"Tomás is a farmer, the richest man in his rural village. Rough and taciturn, Tomás is seemingly as solid as the cattle he breeds, as rooted in the land as the eucalyptus trees he grows under the Galican sun. When he's diagnosed with lung cancer, he tells no-one. Suiza is a strikingly beautiful and damaged young woman, a run-away who is barely literate and whose only dream is to see the sea. When Tomás meets Suiza's gaze he is seized with irrepressible desire. Unable to contain his impulses, desperate to seize at the life he feels trickling away from him, Tomás forces himself on the young woman. Lust gives way to shame, and anger to remorse. Something that resembles true love starts growing in his heart, and is seemingly reciprocated. But how transformative can love really be? As happiness and the promise of healing beckon, the darkness that all along has been spreading below the surface will reveal itself, bringing the narrative to a heart-stopping, and heart wrenching, denouement." -- jacket flap.
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