El fulgor y la sangre

In the closed and ruinous environment of a barracks lost in a Spanish mountain range, the wives of some civil guards receive news that one of them has died.

María is advised by her father to obtain a career, so she becomes a teacher, which is a revered position, alongside being mayor or the local priest.

We learn that she was an apprentice in a hair salon in Madrid under a woman called Asunción, an anarchist.

The son of the wealthy family comes back from the war a cripple and his girlfriend leaves him and he becomes embittered as a result.

The narrative style within El fulgor y la sangre is told from the third person.

The block itself is divided into six sections, five for the civil guards and their families and the other for the corporal who is single.