A novel that sparked significant controversy in the Basque Country and Spain, as it shatters one of the biggest taboos: motherhood is not always absolute love!
The novel also asks: Is creativity a selfish or painful act?
Why is birth associated with feelings of pain and guilt, whether it's a real birth or a creative birth?
Through an implicit comparison between literary figures like Sylvia Plath and Doris Lessing, the novel opens a broad discussion to the question:
Could writing itself be an alternative to motherhood?
The reader experiences an internal tension: who is truly to blame? The mother who killed her children? Or society, which pressures mothers to be perfect?
A novelist, nine months pregnant, suddenly discovers she knows the main character in a criminal scandal that shook society: a mother who killed her infant twins. What begins as literary curiosity turns into an existential obsession, as the protagonist takes maternity leave, not to raise her awaited baby, but to write a novel that uncovers the dark secrets behind the crime.