After the signing of the armistice, peace will not come to Macondo. Fearing the threats posed by Colonel Aureliano Buendía, the Conservatives plot an assassination attempt that, by a twist of fate, will bring Fernanda del Carpio, a woman from Bogotá, to the town. When she marries Aureliano Segundo, one of the twins born to the bastard Arcadio, she will give Úrsula Iguarán her first legitimate descendants.
Meanwhile, José Arcadio Segundo, the other twin, will make the patriarch’s grandiose dreams possible by connecting Macondo to the outside world. With the arrival of the train, he will open the doors to the banana company, unleashing forces that will hasten the town’s downfall and fulfill Úrsula Iguarán’s curse: the generations condemned to one hundred years of solitude had no second chance on earth.
