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Peace, according to Miguel de Unamuno y Hugo (1864-1936), grows out of the struggle for life, and war can be understood and justified in the core of true and deep peace. These seemingly paradoxical words acquire their meaning in this novel, the first (1897) in the work of the famous Spanish writer-philosopher. The events that formed the basis of the plot were the last Carlist war and, in particular, the siege of Bilbao, which the author himself experienced and remembered as a child. Hence the accuracy of the description of the life of ordinary Biscayans, their identity and worldview. But the conflict of the novel unfolds not only between the carlist and the liberals, but also between the city and the countryside, between farmers and traders, between religious and social rules and the impulses of the flesh. And above all, it is a search for peace, and above all, with oneself.