This is a picture story about the Spanish Civil War for both children and adults. It tells the true story of great-grandfather Ramón. He got caught up in the civil war when he was doing his military service, at the age of 22. He was sent to the Aragon front, the Battle of Teruel and the Battle of the Ebro, practically the whole war. Afterwards he hid out in Castelltallat Mountains. Finally, he was locked up for six months in Manresa prison. He learnt all about the evil and suffering that war bring.
It is told from the perspective of a father who explains it to his son. A father who never knew his grandfather Ramón, who died in 1954, at the age of 41. At the same age as when the father began to write his story about his grandfather, so that his children would never forget it.
