June 20th, 1973. After a long exile, Juan Domingo Peron returns to Argentina. He leaves behind years of suffered contempt in a Madrid under Franco's regime and the memory of a triumphant Eva Peron, whose body rests in his own home. An unprecedented throng is awaiting his arrival and his followers battle fiercely to seize control of what the old general still represents. In the action packed biography of a man that embodied the hopes of his people, Tomas Eloy Martinez sums up the last hundred years in the history of Argentina.