La frontera lleva su nombre

From the late 19th century until the 1950s, the poorest young women from the valleys of the Navarrese and Aragonese Pyrenees crossed the mountains on foot to work in the espadrille factories on the French side. Like swallows, they left in October and returned in spring, full of hope and laden with fabrics and belongings for the trousseau that would constitute their contribution to a future marriage. Esperanza Ayerra is the great-granddaughter of Esperanza, a swallow who crossed the Pyrenees in 1913 and whose future was stolen by the world's greatest conflict. She is the granddaughter of Esperanza, known as Perla, who had neither father nor husband, due to the cruel fate of a divided Spain. She is the daughter of Espe, a woman who swallowed her sorrows and whom history left breathless. She is the fruit of the border between two countries that drift apart and draw closer when their people fall in love.