Luis G. Iglesias

Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.

Pinín and his small group of friends discover that the river they frequent is being polluted, affecting all the animals and plants in the area. The group, along with an old captain struggling with alcoholism, will search for the cause of the problem in order to solve it.