Virginity Despoiled

Enrique grows some of Spain's finest olive oil. Lili, his Canadian ex-banker lover, helps him fight to keep their business alive in a market where competitors don't play fair.

In Estonia, Oleg and Andrei find their ally: the humble olive fruit fly. Their plan isn't to outcompete an industry. It is simpler: destroy a third of the world's olive harvest and profit from the resulting shortage.

As the flies multiply, Enrique's insurers — cousins Ana and Inma — face reckonings of their own: an inheritance shadowed by the Spanish Civil War, a sexuality neither expected to question and colossal losses if the olives fail. Meanwhile, nature's clock ticks down on the harvest itself.

Betrayal, secrets, forbidden love and an infestation designed to bankrupt an industry. Who can survive this season?

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