El retablo de Maese Pedro (trans. Master Peter's Puppet Show) in the house-museum of Cervantes, and procession of Christ of the Agony, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

Autumn 1547, the town of Alcalá de Henares witnesses the birth of Miguel, fourth child of Leonor de Cortinas and Rodrigo de Cervantes, barber-surgeon by profession, the bottom rung of the medical ladder. His childhood passes amongst the magic of puppet shows (those "wandering people" will never be forgotten) and the tribulations of a country’s obsession with pure bloodlines.