After an exhausting search, local authorities manage to capture Angel, who is accused of killing several women. A few months after his imprisonment in the maximum security prison of Malagua, he is questioned by a reporter named: Julio Bocanegra; who is looking for the truth behind the murders in Malagua.

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.

The newly separated Leonor comes from the monied class, while sixteen year old aspiring ballerina Emilia does not. They begin a tense pas de deux waiting out Emilia’s pregnancy in a remote country home, isolated from the world and each other.