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An immersive, historical novel based on true events: In 1938, Orson Welles’s legendary radio dramatization of H.G. Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds terrified Americans into believing Martians were invading Earth. Eleven years later, an Ecuadorian radio station adapted the show—with catastrophic consequences. 

 

1957: Aspiring photojournalist Valeria Anzures returns to her hometown of Quito with a secret purpose: to uncover the truth about what really happened to her parents on the disastrous night of the 1949 War of the Worlds radio transmission. That reckless broadcast not only altered the course of her life but also shattered her parents’ close friendship with another couple—the parents of her childhood love, Matías. Eight years later, the fallout from that night still echoes, having fractured two families, destroyed their shared business ventures, and made Valeria’s love for Matías virtually impossible.