Los ausentes

Basque Country, 2007. After the failure of the last truce, ETA prepares a new coup to demonstrate its questioned strength. Two hooded men kidnap at gunpoint Bixen Alzola, a university professor and defender of the peaceful way as the only alternative to solve the Basque conflict. When his wife, Leire, receives the call from the terrorist organization claiming the action, she feels her world is cracking. She knows that the chances of her husband getting out unscathed are slim. During that long night, Ella Leire makes a decision: she will do everything in her power to save the life of her husband. What will she be capable of? How far is she willing to go? And what price is she going to pay for it? Because nothing will be the same. There is no way back. There never is when certain limits are crossed. The absent is a novel about violence, violence that will gradually drag down all the characters, without anyone, or anything, being able to stop it.