Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of Barcelona. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month.

Married to the retired magistrate of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her much older husband but feels stifled by the monotony of her life in the shabby and conservative provincial town. She embarks on a quest for fulfillment through religion and even adultery.

Written while Federico García Lorca was a student at Columbia University in 1929-30, Poet in New York is a book that changed the direction of poetry in both Spain and the Americas, a pathbreaking and defining work of modern literature.