Libro Historia Del Mundo Contemporaneo 1 Bachillerato -

Sofía knows from her textbook how this ends. She tries to warn him. But the cannons of General Cavaignac roar. The barricade falls. Joaquín is not killed, but he is captured. As he is dragged away, he shouts to Sofía: “Tell them we almost made it! Tell them the dream didn’t die, it just went underground!”

Sofía watches as Joaquín joins a secret sindicato . She sees the fear in his eyes when the Ley de Chapman (a reference to anti-union laws) sends his friend to a penal colony in Australia. But she also sees his hope when he reads a smuggled pamphlet by Marx and Engels: “¡Proletarios del mundo, uníos!” Libro Historia Del Mundo Contemporaneo 1 Bachillerato

A dusty archive in Salamanca, Spain. Sofía, a 16-year-old student, is desperately trying to finish a group project for her Historia del Mundo Contemporáneo class. Her topic: “The Failure of the Restoration and the Rise of the Masses.” She’s bored by the textbook. Then, she finds a small, unlabeled tin box. Sofía knows from her textbook how this ends

Inside is a single sepia photograph of a young man, no older than 18, standing in front of a grim factory in Manchester, 1842. On the back, in faded pencil: “Joaquín, el que soñó con el vapor.” The barricade falls

“You are both children of the same dream,” Joaquín tells them. “You just want to build the house with different doors.”