Once, not too long ago, in a village of La Mancha, there lived a Spanish nobleman – a hidalgo – named Alonso Quixano. He was not wealthy, but whatever money he had, he spent on buying books of chivalric tales. This was his great passion. And the more he read these books, with their ornate language and exaggerations, the more he believed their stories to be true, so much so that imagination and reality became confused in his mind, until one day he believed it was his destiny to become a true wandering knight!!