What do erotic desire and the near-death experience have in common? In this autobiographical novel Claudina Domingo narrates two vital moments. On the one hand there is the adolescent who, in her desire to abandon childhood, becomes obsessed with sexual pleasure. Two decades later, the adult woman arrives at the hospital with life-threatening internal bleeding. In both areas, a sense of urgency reigns, although of a different nature: an excessive desire to live, in its most literary and romantic sense, pushes the girl to bizarre experiences as she gets to know Mexico City, while the struggle To stay alive forces the adult woman to experience (and relive) physical suffering. If the girl lives in a world where her dreams and daydreams prevent her from contacting the real world, reality assails the adult woman like a nightmare.