Cada noche a las nueve

"Mother died at five fifty-eight."

So begins this story of seven extraordinary children who, faced with the unknown terrors of an orphanage, decide not to report their mother's death.

They bury her in the garden and build a tabernacle over her grave.
To the outside world they pretend she is ill and confined to her room.

Their problems begin immediately. Curious officials make inquiries, well-meaning neighbors offer assistance. The children themselves fall to quarreling.

Then a spellbinding stranger appears, claiming to be their father. He agrees to keep their secret -- and from that point the story moves relentlessly to its incredible climax.