An elderly biologist accompanied by her young disciples, a community member, a young girl, an agronomist, a painter, a journalist, a police officer with an unorthodox sense of duty... These are just a few of the many heroes of an improbable epic that mobilizes the communities of the Sierra Mixteca to confront the combined interests of organized crime, genetically modified organisms, and the politicians who govern Mexico. The objective: to save native corn seeds and thereby contribute to the survival of humanity.

Before her death, Francesca Gargallo completed Mother Earth, a trilogy of novels that considers life in its biological and narrative dimensions and invites us to imagine the resumption of human civilization after the end of the world as we know it. The Seed is the first novel in the cycle and connects a genre, the epic, with an Earth science: biology.

The culture of corn remains alive, transforming and reinventing itself every time peasant hands plant, exchange, and crossbreed the seeds they have saved for generations... That's why it's not enough to preserve the genes of local corn varieties frozen in banks. It's necessary to preserve the freedom of the hands that build an unbreakable way of life day after day.