Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borde
rs and engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid's chic Gran Via has become a h
aven for foreign journalists and writers. It is here that six people meet and fi
nd their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marria
ge sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and a new romance; Mar
tha Gellhorn, an ambitious young journalist hungry for love and experience, thin
ks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain.
