Mi antigua vida

Love and betrayal, sexuality and pain, utopia and the perversions of modernity, the tension between the public and the private. Being a woman in Latin America at the end of the 20th century. Overnight, Violeta Dasinsky becomes news due to a tragedy, and Josefa Ferrer, her childhood friend, with Violeta's diaries in hand, begins to tell her story. That is, the story of both of them. Although Josefa, a successful and anguished Chilean singer, is the narrator, to her voice and Violeta's is added that of "we, the others," a kind of Greek chorus and witness to the female experience across generations. In a vivid counterpoint, the narrative will trace the at once parallel and divergent quests of Violeta and Josefa, from their shared childhood in the classist and turbulent Santiago of the 1960s to the "therapeutic journey" to the city of Antigua, Guatemala, betting on friendship as a possible cure. In My Dearest Antigua, the lives of Josefa and Violeta, like stitches on the embroidery of a multicolored huipil, reveal, layer by layer, the conflicts and desires of contemporary women. The critics said: "Marcela Serrano's ideology and heart are furnished with a firmness capable of sidestepping all contradictions." El Mundo