One of the most exciting and memorable love stories—a man and a woman, their ancestors and their descendants, a country and its history; the five pivotal decades of our century, from the 1920s to the 1970s. A Latin American epic of rise and fall, passion, love, and loneliness. The House of the Spirits, the bestselling novel by Isabel Allende, adapted for the screen by Academy Award winner Bille August. In collaboration with Jonathan Ryer.