The Horse That Screamed — Richard Newman

A young, blind Basque and an orphaned girl wait in trepidation for the approach of the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. As they attempt to deal with the impossibility of their lives, an old man with no name and no past arrives to spin magical stories bringing colour and life to the bitter youth. But a Priest, whose idea of salvation is very different from their own, confuses their lives just as the German bombers arrive in the skies of Guernica.