first published in 1934 this dramatic novel covers four days following a car crash where a doctor is critically injured and the women around him struggle with their hopes inhibitions and knowledge synopsis nineteenth century injury is an epic romance where emaculada is a young woman who was destined to marry a gentleman of high society but her husband arduo victorio just wants an heirfor the despair of young woman who cannot get pregnant within a period determined by the boys familyshe cheats him with a false pregnancy and after being discovered she is returned to her parents and because of this her life will have another course where her honor will be played on the ground