Mila y Piolín collects the complete thirty episodes of the Mila y Piolín series for the first time as the author conceived them and made them known.
Its protagonist is an intrepid Mila who, animated by her desire to travel the world, undertakes in the company of Piolín an intricate journey that ends in Segovia, where she manages to reunite with Valeriana, her grandfather's faithful maid.
The author, aware that the post-war reality is very different from the bourgeois and urban setting of the 1930s, where she herself and her characters had developed, renounces providing her protagonist with a stable home and places her in a marginal environment. , surrounded by rogues, vagabonds and popular characters. This story, which has its roots in the traditional Spanish picaresque novel, constitutes one of Elena Fortún's most original novels.
