CATHEDRAL OF THE SEA

Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones XIV century.
The city of Barcelona is at its moment of greatest
prosperity; has grown towards the Ribera the humble
neighborhood of fishermen whose inhabitants decide to
build with the money of some and the effort of others the
largest Maria cathedral ever known. A construction that
moves parallel to the hazardous story of Arnau son of a
peasant serf who flees from the abuses of his feudal lord
and takes refuge in Barcelona ??where he becomes a citizen
and with it a free man. While his best friend and adopted
brother Joan studies to become a priest young Arnau
becomes a member of the guild of the stone-workers soldier
and moneychanger. A strenuous life which leads him from
the misery of the fugitive to nobility and wealth. But
with this privileged position he also gets the envy of his
peers who devise a sordid plot that puts his life in the
hands of the Inquisition. He finds himself face-to-face
with his own brother. Will he lose his life just as his
beloved Cathedral of the Sea is finally completed?