la madre de Frankenstein

In 1954, the young psychiatrist Germán Velázquez returns to Spain to work in the women's asylum in Ciempozuelos, south of Madrid. After going into exile in 1939, he has lived fifteen years in Switzerland, taken in by Dr. Goldstein's family. In Ciempozuelos, Germán reunites with Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, a paranoid, highly intelligent matricide who fascinated him at thirteen, and meets a nursing assistant, María Castejón, whom Doña Aurora taught to read and write when she was a child. Germán, attracted to María, does not understand her rejection, and suspects that her life hides many secrets. The reader will discover her humble origins as the granddaughter of the asylum's gardener, her years as a maid in Madrid, her unfortunate love story, as well as the reasons why Germán has returned to Spain. Twin souls who want to escape their respective pasts, Germán and María want to give themselves a chance, but they live in a humiliated country where sins become crimes, and puritanism, the official morality, covers up all kinds of abuses and outrages.

In 1954, the young psychiatrist Germán Velázquez returns to Spain to work in the women's asylum in Ciempozuelos, south of Madrid. After going into exile in 1939, he has lived fifteen years in Switzerland, taken in by Dr. Goldstein's family. In Ciempozuelos, Germán reunites with Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, a paranoid, highly intelligent matricide who fascinated him at thirteen, and meets a nursing assistant, María Castejón, whom Doña Aurora taught to read and write when she was a child. Germán, attracted to María, does not understand her rejection, and suspects that her life hides many secrets. The reader will discover her humble origins as the granddaughter of the asylum's gardener, her years as a maid in Madrid, her unfortunate love story, as well as the reasons why Germán has returned to Spain. Twin souls who want to escape their respective pasts, Germán and María want to give themselves a chance, but they live in a humiliated country where sins become crimes, and puritanism, the official morality, covers up all kinds of abuses and outrages.