Although the book and the movie have somewhat similar plots, the two are not completely like one other. The main difference is that the movie steals an entire generation; almost everything what happens in the novel to Alba happens in the movie to Blanca. To illustrate, Alba is the one taken into custody by the political police force for dating Miguel (a revolutionary), not Blanca for dating Pedro Garcia as in the movie. Moreover, Alba is the one that was mistreated and bruptly abused by Esteban Garcia in jail not Blanca. Finally, Alba was the one released with the help of Transito, who was one of the many lovers of Esteban Trueba.
In contrast with the movie Blanca actually does marry Jean de Satigny even though she ends up leaving him. However, in the same way as in the novel, Jean was the one who told Esteban Trueba about Pedro Garcia’s secret encounter with Blanca by the lake. Esteban’s revenge in the book was a success for him because he ends up cutting Pedro’s fingers however in the movie nothing bad happens when he finds him.
Uncle Marcos, Barrabas, the twins (Jaime and Nicolas) children of Clara and Esteban, are not mention in the movie. As a consequent of this, the lover that Nicolas had in the book (Amanda) with whom his brother was deeply in love too, was omited in the movie. Alba’s lover (Miguel) is absent too because she is only a child when all this happens, whereas in the book she was a teenager already.
On the other hand, some similarities between the book and the movie are: Clara was a clairvoyant and fully develop from the start, Rose died in the first part of the movie and was extremely beautiful, Esteban was a miner at first, Clara’s parents died in a car accident and the mother losses her head, Ferula lived with Clara and Esteban and also she cursed her brother when he threw her out of the house, the political activities have importance in both the novel and the movie from the start, and finally the clash between classes collide in a revolution at the end.
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