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With this Don Quixote, we leap through time, moving from the 17th^th century and its already outdated chivalric world to the 20th century in a Spain where the Civil War is taking hold. While men of letters are viewed as potential subversives, Alonso Quichano, a literature professor, has found refuge in Madame Petit’s famous brothel—the last bastion of freedom—as a wind of repression blows outside. Employed as a janitor, he reads banned books to the brothel’s residents. However, the tragic events shaking society threaten to penetrate even his refuge, and Alonso—guided solely by his legendary courage—is knighted by the brothel’s madam and, as a true champion of justice, sets out on an adventure to combat intolerance and injustice. 

And what does it matter if the enemy is nothing more than a fan, and the gentle ladies are women of the night? Must utopia disguise itself as madness to set us free? Is naivety the best way to escape evil?