Donostia-San Sebastián Years 80: years of lead”. This is what the reader can read in this agile and intense style novel before learning the love story between Jon and Oliva. And yes, this novel by Gaizka Arostegi is set in the 1980s, and yes, it's lead years. In the first of the twenty chapters of the novel we can see the atmosphere of violence; when the protagonist of the novel goes overnight in the street, he sees two cars slowly approaching a barricade; they are civil guard cars, until a young man from one corner launches a Molotov cocktail to the guards. One of them is seriously wounded in the fire.

Jon runs away from the scene and the race that starts will last throughout the novel, as the anecdotes, the deceit, the fights, the angry... as that same night he meets a girl he met at the high school, who also flees from the situation, although in this case the bus he was traveling was burned by some young people. And so Jon and Oliva, pushed by the situation, go together. The sparks, fires, etc., of that night, break the love among the young and start an impossible love.

Jon and Oliva would be our Romeo and Juliet. An impossible, impossible love; Jon's father, ethical and prisoner of a remote prison; Oliva's father, sergeant of the Civil Guard at Intxaurrondo's headquarters. As in the drama of Shakespeare, there will also be difficulties for the two young people; the situation, the families, the friends... all oppose this relación.Arostegi has written novels of adventures for the young, works that reflected the atmosphere of about

30-40 years ago, but on this occasion he has placed the novel in a violent situation of the 80s; his kidnapped fellow inmates, the man of the