México

The city where dreams coexist with tragedies. Capital of empires, city of palaces, cosmopolitan metropolis, but also a victim of the ravages of nature. Their tragedies have no end. Although neither have its great moments that have seen emperors crowned, armies cheered and magnificent buildings erected. Four families have seen and suffered it all, each with its long genealogy of lies, dreams and sorrows. They reveal the secrets of Mexico City and its protagonists: the conspiracy of the sons of Cortés that began as a game, the Hunger riot in the Parián, the autos-da-fé in the Volador, Humboldt's dalliances, the betrayal of the rich polko children, the excesses of Juárez and the post-revolutionary megalomaniacs. These families know everything, because they have walked its streets from the beginning. Pedro Ángel Palou recreates with spectacular precision the epic history of Mexico City, from the fall of Tenochtitlan to the 1985 earthquake, and the curse that has condemned it to rise again and again to make up for his mistakes.