En manos del viento

Mikela suddenly leaves behind her childhood in the farmhouse at the moment when her widowed mother takes her to the house of the Repáraz, a wealthy family from Alsasua, to whose service the girl, barely thirteen years old, will enter. This is how her older sisters have done it before her, and now it is her turn to lighten the house table in turn and, incidentally, practice a trade that may be useful to her later on. The embers of the civil war are still alive, in the house of the Repáraz Mikela will know the life of the wealthy, but also the other side of the coin, because bad times are for losers... She will have to dominate the nostalgia of her family, bridle the memories and, at the same time, open her adolescent heart to the new life that begins to show itself to her. She will learn in her own flesh that it is useless to strive to remain sheltered from all winds; at any moment, through any loophole, she will sneak in an unforeseen gust that will transport her or the unknown. Only those who remain alert will be able to escape the gale. A sentimental education as tough as it is necessary.