In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebir
th of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the nor
th in search of a better life. But the work, when there was any, was poorly paid
and the housing squalid. Out of this world of limited opportunities a generatio
n of delinquents arose whose prospects were stifled and whose rebellion would be
brief and violent...One summer's day in Gerona a bespectacled, sixteen-year-old
Ignacio Canas, known to his few friends as Gafitas, is working in an amusement
arcade, when a charismatic teenager walks in with the most beautiful girl Canas
has ever seen.
Zarco and Tere take over his pinball machine and his life. Thi
rty years on and now a successful criminal defence lawyer, Canas has tried to pu
t that long, hot summer of drugs, yearning and delinquency behind him. But when
Tere appears in his office and asks him to represent El Zarco, who has been in p
rison all this time, what else can Gafitas do but accept.
