Alina, Laura, Doris. 

Three contemporary women experience motherhood differently. Biological instinct, family expectations, professional dreams, and social mandates lead them to disparate decisions. Conception, abortion, sterilization, miscarriage, birth: the female body becomes a battleground of conflicting forces between free choice and imposed decision.

Guadalupe Nettel, who has become one of the most important representatives of contemporary Latin American literature, records the countless forms of motherhood, the battles, the dramas, and the ways we ultimately learn to love.

A highly charged novel about what family means today, written with touching tenderness and humanity.