In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.
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Character: Mosen Joaquín
Character: Pepe
Character: Valentina
Character: Valentina adulta
Character: Don José
Character: Doña Luisa
Character: Don Arturo
Character: Doña Julia
Character: Narrador
Character: Tía Ignacia
Character: Médico
Character: Pastor
Character: Garcés
Character: Cocinera
Character: Alcalde
Character: Guarda
Character: Pilar
Character: Maruja
Character: Concha
Character: Luisa
Character: Carrasco
Character: Colaso
Character: Julián