Días de ceniza

There was nothing special about the day Cushla and Michael met. But in Belfast, love, like life, is never too far from violence and death. And yet, the day they both met was destined to change their lives forever.

Every morning people got up to go to work, school, church or the nearest pub, and every morning the newspaper brought news of another car bomb with victims, of another man beaten to death or left for dead. Words like booby trap, incendiary device, Molotov cocktail, rubber bullets, armored vehicle and Ulster vanguard movement had come into common use in any schoolyard.

In a city where fear and violence had become the only currency, that of Cushla and Michael will be a story forged and condemned under the protection of secrecy and silence.