The film takes the characters of The Moon (1979) by Bernardo Bertolucci, to interweave the plot with texts of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

A family's day long ritual.

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.