[1][2] Julia, an only child of an affluent, bank owning family living in Madrid, escapes from her family to get over her grief that her boyfriend has been imprisoned.

Julia is a well-educated woman, having studied in Switzerland and England, who wants to become a writer.

Julia drives to a little village in Asturias called "Corralbos del Sella" and there she stays in a mansion "llendelabarca" of an old childhood friend "Pilara" she had spent many a happy summer with.

Also living there is Pilara's mother in law Tia Gala, and her grandson Juanito.

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