A mother tells her story of life in Galicia during the Second World War, including living with the presence of Nazis and what the extraction of Wolfram meant to the local people at the time. This narrative demonstrates a natural command of style, which can be seen in the use of metaliterature to tell the story of the narrator’s family, as she attempts to make sense of her origins through the events of the past. A family history founded on love that begins in a little corner of Galicia that lived through the terror of the Nazi regime.