Inspired by the authors own childhood, this is the story of a girl with a birth defect of the eye. Her life during the seventies is heavily influenced by her scant vision, but also by the dominant ideology of the time: her parents open marriage, progressive schools, hippie communes, sexual liberation and everything that came with it. Written in the style of a soliloquy from a psychoanalysts divan, the narrator makes the reader a participant in her most intimate memories. With this novel Guadalupe Nettel confirms what critics have been saying since her debut: that she is one of the greatest revelations of the Spanish language in the last decade.
