This book does not speak of flamenco art, but of something greater that transcends it: of creation, of ritual, of dance in capital letters, as has never been spoken before, through a brilliant, self-taught and unrepeatable artist and creator. This is the direct account of a life filled to the extreme of lights and shadows: success and marginality, poverty and wealth, torment and ecstasy. She herself describes a happy childhood and her sudden fall from it into the abyss: eighteen long years of abuse that culminated in her inexplicable disappearance from the stage just at her peak. With her art, she may have reached the top of the world several times, but the people closest to her took it upon themselves to prevent it.

The story of a girl-woman tragically subjected to an unjust life from which she managed to escape in the most unusual and exquisite way. Her dance was an authentic ritual, her physical sacrifice was total, her communion with the public, magical. The stage was the sacred place where every night she met the "there." This was her special world, a different dimension where she was the owner and mistress, where she felt totally free and fulfilled.