Its the late sixties the last dark years of Francos dictatorship Minaya auniversity student in Madrid is caught up in the student protests and thepolice are aft... » 

Its the late sixties the last dark years of Francos dictatorship Minaya auniversity student in Madrid is caught up in the student protests and thepolice are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuels country estate in thesmall town of Magina to write his thesis on an old friend of Manuels anobscure republican poet named Jacinto Solana. The country house is full oftraces of the poetnotes photographs journalsand Minaya soon discoversthat thirty years earlier during the Spanish Civil War both his uncle andSolana were in love with the same woman the beautiful unsettling Mariana.Engaged to Manuel she was shot in the attic of the house on her wedding night.With the aid of Ines a maid Minaya begins to search for Solanas lostmasterpiece a novel called Beatus Ille Looking for a book he unravels acrime. «