Los pobres de espíritu

Inspector Eusebio Cánovas, long accustomed to the horrors and brutality of the Franco regime, could never have imagined that, as his career drew to a close, he would face an investigation capable of truly shaking him to his core. In the early hours of September 15, the body of Sister Purificación was discovered in the chapel of the Sagrado Corazón de la Dolorosa—a girls' school in Cuenca—with her chest laid open and seven daggers, taken from a statue of the Virgin Mary, plunged into her heart. Assisted by the young sub-inspector Tuñón and Father Lobo—the school’s chaplain, a former Jesuit, and a retired psychiatrist—Cánovas sets out to fathom the sadism behind the crime and track down the perpetrator of this unprecedented, sacrilegious murder. As the investigation unfolds, it reveals that behind the school’s walls lie unspeakable secrets—far beyond the strict discipline and pious facade maintained by the nuns. The case unearths old wounds, perverse power dynamics, and a profoundly dark psychological undercurrent rooted in both suffering and religion.