Here is the story of two families in small-town Basque country, pitted against each other by the ideology and violence of the terrorist group ETA (Basque Homeland and Liberty), from the unrelentingly grim 1980s to October 2011 when the group proclaimed an end to its savage insurgency. Erstwhile lifetime friends--especially the generation of parents on both sides--the two families become bitter enemies when a father of one is killed by ETA militants,...

A small Basque village is irreparably changed and broken by political fanaticism. Childhood friends, Bittori and Mirren, wounded by their craters of grief find it impossible to forget and forgive.