Candela made the mistake of thinking that the social ladder only works in one direction: upward. And now, after a traumatic and unexpected divorce, she loses her job at an elite school. So Candela has to return to the neighborhood she left and ask for help from her sister and father, the same people she’s been looking down on for years. It’s time to rearrange the pieces on the board, start from scratch, and look for a second chance. But the only one she finds is teaching students with integration problems at her old school. She goes from the crème de la crème to the crème of mediocrity. What Candela doesn’t expect is that with them, she’ll learn that what matters isn’t who you were yesterday, but who you are today; that a group of losers for whom no one gives a dime can end up being Spanish champions; and that, in chess, as in life, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a king or a pawn, because at the end of the game, both end up in the same box.