El salón de la embajada italiana

The day her aunt died, Carmela, journalist and writer, recalls the liberty and sophistication that the woman of Italian origin, related to international diplomacy, tried to install in her and that in time ended up buried beneath the weight of family responsibilities. Months earlier, the quiet and unfulfilled life of Carmela wobbles when Mateo, a handsome business man, shows up in Bilbao to make a strange commission for which he is willing to pay any amount of money: investigate and write the biography of his father, long dead. Bewilderment ruins the first interviews with Mateo, but a series of events will give her strength to discover, not only the mysteries that seem to surround the request, but also those that her heart begins to feel. From that moment on, Carmela will intuit that life need not be built on renunciations, that loyalty can waver, that history hides secrets that must be confessed and that all liberties have a price tag. She will discover the clues to penetrate that world in the life of her late aunt.