EXTRAÑAS

"It wasn't an animal, perhaps not a human being either; it seemed to be a broken angel, lost, neglected"

England, 1781. William Burton, a young nobleman, has an encounter whose intensity will leave a mark on his life and change it forever. He is the first-born of a lineage whose ancestors date back to 971. From childhood he has been educated by his father to honor the family traditions and rule Evergreen's vast domains, as all his ancestors have done for centuries. But his life will change when he discovers himself at the back of a stable, surrounded by cattle and chained to a post just like an animal, the naked figure of a malformed man. An encounter that will awaken in him a vocation for medicine and will drag his life to a crucial dilemma: to be faithful to himself and to his inclination for reason and knowledge, or to remain attached to religion and the obligations and duties imposed by the family name. The author, who has always had a clear preference for the borderline spaces around ethics, travels back to England in the 18th century to tell us about the conflicting moral frontier that separated science and religion. He does so through a main character who will defy the social conventions of the time and renounce the privileges of his lineage in order to become a doctor and help the most disadvantaged in society.