“This is a story of many transgressions: those of the young people who break the rules and transgress the social establishment and those of who, without breaking the rules (but indeed trying to restore them), transgress the intimate small order of a group of children who do not consider themselves to be criminals. Everything narrated in this book actually happened, but I am afraid it still happening” (Juan Farias).

“A brilliant and hard novel set in the forties… a story full of humanity and compassion, which reveals the mistakes and injustices that have been made in the education of difficult, misfit children, in past times and now” (Comunidad Escolar).