"I am not exaggerating when I say that I was a feminist from kindergarten."

The great Chilean author invites us to accompany her on a personal and emotional journey in which she examines both the female condition, how she experienced it during her life, and her relationship with the feminist movement, from her infancy to the present day. She remembers people around her who defined her, such as her mother, Panchita, who raised herself and her siblings after being abandoned by her father, her unfortunate daughter, Paula, or her agent, Carmen Balsels. who was her friend and mentor. It refers to iconic writers such as Virginia Woolf and Margaret Adwood, as well as to younger, more conscientious artists, as well as to women victims of violence who, with dignity and courage, stand on their own two feet and move on. These are the women of her soul. Welcoming the #MeToo movement and the recent uprisings in Chile, Allende concludes:

"I am not ready to hand over my torch yet and I hope I never will. I want to light my grandchildren's torches with my own. They should live for us like that

we live for our mothers, and continue the work we could not complete