Banderas en la niebla

December 1936. Spain is ablaze with a fierce war; in many places, fighting rages town by town, house by house. Without knowing each other—or even being aware of the other's existence—two men from vastly different backgrounds are destined to share the same fate: a bloody confrontation in the hills of Lopera (Jaén), where destiny will forever link their names. José García Carranza—known as "El Algabeño"—is a Sevillian bullfighter, a womanizer, and a Falangist; he joins the rebel forces from the very start and plays an active role in the repression of the Andalusian people, leading a right-wing mounted militia. John Cornford, a Cambridge University student and great-grandson of Charles Darwin, is a young poet driven by a romantic spirit who, at the height of the Stalinist era, becomes one of the first volunteers to enlist in the International Brigades. The portraits of their lives, masterfully sketched by Javier Reverte, reveal two facets of that epic conflict: a traditional Spain mired in the values ​​of the past, and the young idealists who, fired by revolutionary fervor, came to Spain to fight.