Ofelia Fernández Molle es una muchacha formal, feliz, a punto de casarse. Pero una tarde su vida cambia abruptamente para convertirse en una maraña de sentimientos encontrados: delicia, inquietud, felicidad, incertidumbre, miedo y mucha culpa. Con grandes vaivenes interiores y a través de difíciles decisiones, se va convirtiendo en una mujer adulta que enfrenta a su propio modo las circunstancias que le han tocado.

Durante los años 50 y 60 del siglo XX, como muchas mujeres de su época, Ofelia rompe sin alardes ni espectáculos con las mandatos familiares y sociales: no será solamente ama de casa, no trabajaré junto a su padre, no evadirá las complejidades del amor. En tiempos de agitación y cuestionamiento de los roles de género, Eduardo Sacheri ha escrito una hermosa novela cargada de preguntas sobre el enamoramiento, la exclusividad amorosa, el matrimonio, el dolor, el secreto, el destino y la libertad interior. Y nos brinda una heroína a la altura de todas las épocas en que crujen los cimientos de un orden moral y se asiste al nacimiento de otro nuevo.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

I believe that if someone knew the story of my life, they would see it as a life poorly lived, full of secrets, betrayal, and concealment. But in this story in which almost everything I do, I do badly, I allow myself to believe that there's one thing, and only one thing, I do well.

Ofelia Fernandez Molle is a conventional girl, happy, about to be married. But, one afternoon her life abruptly changes to become a tangle of mixed feelings: delight, restlessness, happiness, uncertainty, fear, and a lot of guilt. With huge emotional swings and by making difficult decisions, she's becoming an adult woman who confronts, in her own way, the circumstances of her life.

During the 50's and 60's of the twentieth century, like many women of her generation, Ofelia breaks with, without display or show, family and social demands: she will not just be a housewife, she will not work alongside her father, she will not avoid the complexities of love. In times of unrest and the questioning of gender roles, Eduardo Sacheri has written a beautiful novel packed with questions about crushes, the exclusivity of love, marriage, pain, secrets, destiny, and personal freedom. And he gives us a heroine at the height of all times in which the foundation of moral order cracks and the birth of a new one begins.