In his memoirs of childhood and youth, written in several books accounting, accounts painter Manolo Millares ago with his family, friends and various characters belonging to a highly significant period of twentieth-century Spanish history (the Second Republic, the War Civil and postwar), all lived from the Canary Islands. Reading those books by his daughter Eva, his conversations with his father living siblings and his mother Elvireta interventions and various characters referred to in the reports try to rescue the roots of the deep sense of drama, almost tragic, of Thousands painting.

Tomas, a 14-year-old boy lives beneath the castle of the powerful Lord Balador. The boy is able to communicate with animals, and he tries to obtain the royal falcon – a symbol of freedom and faith. He also falls in love with Balador's daughter Formina, a girl who is to be married off against her will.