La balada del norte, 1

Madrid, 1933. Tristán Valdivia—a journalist without a newspaper, an unsuccessful publisher, and a lover devoid of passion—leaves the capital to return to the north. There, his father, the Marquis of Montecorvo, awaits him. These are turbulent times for the country, gripped by the upheavals of the Second Republic, and the aging aristocrat must remain at the helm of his private fiefdom: the Northwest Mining Company.