'Weddings don't appeal to me. That's why I don't walk the streets, I run: male interest is like the wind, but with hands—it's just waiting to reach me.'

Viola Ardone's novel is about the development of a person. It's about a girl who wanted to be free in an era when being born a woman was a death sentence. The author miraculously transforms a real story into fiction, a narrative about the contradictions of love, the relationships between fathers and daughters, mothers and daughters, about a desire that simultaneously attracts and frightens, especially when realized through force.