Ana is seventeen years old and does not like the world around her. She rejects a mother who believes that she can save the planet by selling bags made from recycled materials and a father who resigns himself to the progressive degradation of her working conditions on the radio.
That is why she leaves the home that is supposed to protect her and enters a squatted house. There, in the heat of colleagues who have sought refuge from the ferocity of precarious wages and the gradual eviction of the inhabitants of the neighborhoods by franchises, hotels and tourist apartments, she surrenders to the only life that makes sense for her: that of living in a community of resistance, in which violence is not ruled out. From her squatted house in Lavapiés, in a Madrid right now that could be any other big city, they decide to stand up to the demands of a society that is eliminating the weakest.
Meanwhile, her parents are trying to get her home while trying not to let themselves be crushed by an increasingly ruthless job market.
Insurrection shows some of the main tensions and fractures of our time, without resorting to ideological clichés or reassuring solutions. Its disoriented and fragile characters struggle to solve their problems in ways that will be familiar to readers.