It is 1955 and a fifteen-year-old girl, seeking adventure, escapes the greyness of postwar London for the cobbles, sunshine, and romance of an ancient Catalan city. When she falls in love with the place, she also falls for its charismatic leader. As the years pass and the girl becomes a woman and returns again and again to Girona and to her lover, the enigmatic Jos? Tarres. She meets captivating characters and hears about visions, a strangely...