Set during General Francisco Franco’s counterrevolutionary campaign, which concluded in 1939 with the conquest of Madrid and the end of the Spanish Civil War.
Two soldiers from an itlaian fascist battalion sent to support Franco’s troops befriend each other; one is a former communist revolutionary who enlisted in the hope of finding a way to escape to America, the other is a poor nobody who has found in the army the alternative to working in the sulfur mines.
The horrors of war will transform both men.Read More »