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Spain, 1943. A prostitute in the city of Bilbao gave birth to a boy and gave him to the care of the Jesuits. Galicia - a woman gave birth to a girl and gave her to the nuns of the women's monastery. Julian and Victoria. They are the parents of Maria, our author and main character.
Maria Larrea is the daughter of emigrants. She grew up among the actors of the theater, scenery, firearms of her father, a Basque revolutionary and a violent drunkard, next to a beautiful silent mother, under the ridicule of her friends. Despite everything, she became a film director, fell in love, started a family and left her place of origin. Until twenty-seven-year-old Maria was told by a fortune teller that she was not the daughter of her parents. So fate pulled her back, into the past. And to find out the truth, Maria must return to Bilbao, the city in which she was born...
An autobiographical puzzle, filled with unexpected romance amid painful truth, leads along the life line of the author — from orphanhood and the lies of her parents to passionate bullfights, love and the birth of a writer.
