"Cuaresma de Sangre" is a novel about the many African slaves who lived in 17th-century Seville, gateway and port of the Indies. The protagonist is Domingo Congo, a black page of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, who became a bailiff of the Sevillian black community.

For the writer, author of a trilogy on the Roman emperors born in Hispania, "Seville was only clean in Roman times. In subsequent centuries and especially after the conquest of America it was a very dirty city where many people massed on their way to the new world.  This brought about the spread of many diseases and different outbreaks of plague. Seville was the New York City of the that century.”

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