This is a story of the way people made a democracy in Spain. It begins with a handful of men in a certain region of southern Spain, and the way they grew up and lived their lives during the years of the Civil War and the terrible times which followed. These are not famous men, and you will not recognize their names. But as the story unfolds you will come to know them as some of the men who fought for democracy in this corner of the country, and who came to be leaders of the organized opposition to the dictatorship of Generalísimo Franco. Many of them are men who began the fight or, more grandly, who were present at the birth of the working-class movement. In the language of the struggle they are known as the ‘historic ones’ or, speaking with irony of the oppressed, as the ‘primitives’. In other words, these are the men who, for reasons of personal history or temperament, first came to feel uneasy in their heart and restless in their spirit.