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Regarding power, George Orwell wrote "1984" and Rodoreda wrote "The Death of Spring". In the village she built with literature, cruel customs and inertial suffering repeat themselves in cycles, dragging the spring of revival of all things into a reincarnation that will eventually wither. Rodoreda's sensitive brushwork blends the repressive and gloomy undertones of Franco's regime and Nazism into a vibrant greenery. However, repression does not mean submission, but rather a smaller and more powerful rebellion.

"Broken Mirror" uses poetic language to write a family story spanning three generations: in the prosperous Barcelona in the 1870s, with the emergence and intensification of Franco's dictatorship, the past love and hatred between the three generations finally came to an end. Those broken loves and pasts are pieced together like broken mirrors. When the earth is completely white and clean, only fragments of love leave traces in time.