Jorge Luis Borges,Victoria Ocampo, Natalio Botana, Rafael Alberti, María Teresa León, Manuel de Falla, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, José Ortega y Gasset, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Margarita Xirgu all converge in the pages of a book which in careful prose and with extraordinary narrative fluidity recreates the relationships between Argentineans and Spaniards exiled during the civil war and the terrible post-war period. Events taken from newspapers, memoirs and letters of those who sought asylum on the shores of the Rio de la Plata suffuse the central action, involving