At the end of the 18th Century, the young Creole woman Antonia de Salis lives with her cousin Teresa in Crimea. It is there
that they receive a visit from a fascinating Latin American soldier, Francisco
de Miranda, forerunner of the independence that stirs the colonies, who is
visiting Russia to forge an alliance with Potemkin. Antonia is completely
seduced by this idealist and passionate character who has a reputation for
being a Don Juan and who is a wonderful story teller with the dames. She feels
so strongly that, alter a few furtive encounters, she decides to follow him to
Saint Petersburg, unaware that he is being hunted down by a Spanish diplomat determined
to capture him. Thirty years later in a prison in Cádiz,
an ill General Miranda, who has been betrayed and abandoned by everyone, will
receive the visits and the care of a mysterious woman.
Basing her story on real facts, Mayra Montero invites us along on a
fascinating journey to Europe at the end of the Old Regime and to the America
of Independence, through the battles and political wars that serve as a framework
for the lives of her characters. An intriguing love story, full of adventures,
that also narrates the sentimental education of an independent and courageous
woman.
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