La madre de Frankenstein

In 1954, the young psychiatrist Germán Velázquez returns to Spain to work in the Ciempozuelos women's asylum, south of Madrid. After going into exile in 1939, he has lived fifteen years in Switzerland, hosted by the family of Dr. Goldstein. In Ciempozuelos, Germán meets again with Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, a paranoid, highly intelligent parricide who fascinated him at thirteen years old, 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 his life hides many secrets. The reader will discover her modest origin as a granddaughter of the asylum 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 flee from 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, official morality, covers up all kinds of abuse and outrages