«Alzira, 1800. For the Giner family, their war was not one in which kings and emperors faced each other from comfortable armchairs. For them, the wars were not the struggles between the Church and the politicians to maintain their positions and accumulate wealth and envy; the fight they faced every day was to avoid bad luck and the misfortunes that befall the most unlucky as the only players in a wheel of luck or life.

No, their only war was to subsist day by day, praying to that God who should watch over them, so that their hands would have the strength to continue working and, only when night falls and they get together as a family, to be able to declare out loud, that that day they had won their particular battle.»