La sombra de la tierra

We are in 1896, in Villaveza del Agua, a town in the province of Zamora where hunger and poverty are the vital circumstances of its inhabitants, subjected to the Garibalda, a widow and sick woman who imposes her own rules on the entire community. The Garibalda dictatorship, the control and exploitation to which it has subjected the men and women of the town and the awe they feel towards it has led the inhabitants of Villaveza to seek a solution, and this solution (or that is what they believe) is Atilana, a woman as tough as her circumstances who aspires to achieve the power held by the caciquesa. Confronted for many years, hatred keeps them standing. The fight of these two selfish and manipulative women will drag everyone who is next to her. Atilana and Garibalda so absorbed in each other, unable to see beyond their confrontation, they will not be aware of what is brewing around them until it is too late. No one in the town will emerge unscathed from this anger, although their children, the main victims of these ruthless women, will be the ones condemned to bear the cursed inheritance of these acts.