Roca Editorial 2006

In Mussolini’s Rome, while the Spanish Civil War rages, the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts experiences a period of uncertainty. The institution’s economic situation is unsustainable due to a lack of resources, and even basic provisions are not guaranteed. In these circumstances, José María, a pensioner of the Academy and a scholar of fascist architecture, and Montse, a young Catalan woman whose family—sympathizers of the insurgents—had to flee Barcelona and seek refuge at the Academy, decide to sell a batch of books from the library to raise money.

The buyer is a fascist dignitary, Prince Junio Valerio Cima Vivarini, whose perverse charms the bourgeois teenager cannot resist…
“Certainly, I have committed many sins, even killed a person, but the biggest mistake of my life has been loving two men at once. Doesn’t that explain everything?” —Montse.

What neither José María nor Montse know—but Junio does—is that one of the volumes hides a mysterious secret pursued by the Nazis and that the Vatican intends to conceal at all costs.
“When will men learn that the answers to our problems are not found in the darkness?” —Father Sansovino.

From that moment, the young people become entangled in a strange espionage network where no one is what they seem.
“We were victims of an era and a world dominated by executioners.” —José María.

Ultimately, the weight of what is hidden proves decisive.

Based on real events, The Creator’s Map recreates Rome during World War II, the Nazi occupation of the Italian capital, and the esoteric beliefs of some of the most prominent leaders of the Third Reich, whose influence was decisive in the course of the war.