The Summer We Live

1998. Isabel is a young girl who moves Vigo, Pontevedra (Galicia, northwest to Spain) to make her practices as journalist, but her new boss Don Mauricio only orders her the section of the obituaries. Reluctant to make the job, in her first day she receives an anonymous letter about a woman named Lucia. Talking with Don Mauricio, Isabel each year in the same day since 15 years ago the newspaper receives the same obituary, but this last letter, that it was sent before the usual. Puzzled about it, Isabel gets permission of Don Mauricio to investigate, discovering that the man responsible to write the letters, Gonzalo, lives in a house close to a riff. However, when she travels to the place, she not finds Gonzalo but Carlos, Gonzalo's son, who explains her that his father passed away a few days ago. Telling him the obituaries Gonzalo wrote, Carlos accepts Isabel's offer for working together to investigate about Lucia not only because Lucia wasn't his name's mother, but the chance to know better to his father. Following the trace of the obituaries, Lucia and Carlos discovers that the story starts in 1958, when a young Gonzalo travels to Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz (Andalusia, south to Spain) to meet his close friend Hernan, a vintner belonging a long-tradition family of grapes cultivators to produce wine, hoping to design his new big wine cellar. Living in the family house, Gonzalo meets Hernan's parents Mercedes and Evaristo, his young sister Adela, and to his promised-to-marry girlfriend, Lucia. Quiet and man of few words, Gonzalo lives for his job even ignoring Adela's love interest on him. But their plans for success force Hernan to travel Sevilla to close an important deal, leaving Lucia as temporary boss. Working with her, Gonzalo feels attracted to her, learning that their marriage is arranged by their respective families to increase their riches. Realizing that Gonzalo is fall in love with her, Lucia agrees to his love and the two live in secret their passion, but two unexpected troubles appear on their way: Hernan returns to home before the time and Adela discovers Gonzalo's affair with Lucia, dying while she was escaping of Gonzalo when she falls to a well hide by old planks. According Isabel and Carlos continue investigating, they not only discover the consequences of Adela's death and the ultimate fate of Lucia, but the effect that the story have on themselves.