Bajo la higuera

Synopsis of Bajo la higuera

Clara returns home after ten years in Berlin, carrying a suitcase full of pain and guilt. With no prospects and no job, she decides to face her past and recover the hope for a future by moving to a small town in Salamanca to take care of her ninety-three-year-old grandmother, Inés. In a house haunted by the old woman's ghosts, Clara discovers a story that, like her own, is marked by the deaths of others and secrets that will eventually come to light. 'Bajo la higuera' is a novel about motherhood, told from the point of view of women who never wanted to be mothers, yet ended up being so in very different ways. Set against the backdrop of rural Spain, two women attempt to reconcile with themselves and accept the consequences of their own decisions.