An indomitable woman, a rebellious spirit. She was destined to grow up as the rich heiress of a textile magnate, but from a young age she knew that she was different, that her ability to see what others did not see, to connect with animals, made her special. She defied social conventions, her parents and teachers, and broke any religious or ideological ties to win her right to be a free woman, personally and artistically. Leonora Carrington is today a legend, the most important surrealist painter, and her fascinating life, the material from which our dreams are nourished.

Fanciful and eccentric in her childhood, defiant in her adolescence, Leonora lived the most turbulent love story with the painter Max Ernst. With him he immersed himself in the whirlwind of surrealism, and rubbed shoulders in Paris with Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miró, André Breton and Pablo Picasso; by Max went mad when he was sent to a concentration camp. Leonora was confined to an asylum in Santander, from which she escaped to conquer New York with the help of Peggy Guggenheim. She settled in Mexico marrying the poet and journalist Renato Leduc; This is the culmination of one of the most unique and brilliant artistic and literary works.

It is not the first time that Elena Poniatowska portrays an exceptional woman like no one else. The incredible life of Leonora Carrington is, in her hands, an exciting adventure, a cry for freedom and an elegant approach to the historical avant-garde of the first half of the twentieth century. Elena Poniatowska writes as she speaks; by narrating, he tells, and by telling, he seduces, which makes this true story one of those novels that one simply cannot miss.