A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.
