Un viaje al corazón de Sanmao

Madrid, late 1960s. After a long flight from Taipei, a young woman lands at Barajas airport. She is leaving her home for the first time and she does not know that Spain will change her life forever. In our country she will find love and also the inspiration to write stories that will make her the most famous writer in Asia. In Madrid, Ella Sanmao, she will meet José María Quero, a submariner with whom she will live a romantic and tragic love story. She will travel by her hand to El Aaiun, the old capital of the Spanish Sahara, an exotic place where she will write about her daily experiences with a large dose of humor. Diarios del Sahara and later Diarios de Canarias were a best-selling phenomenon in Taiwan and China, places that at that time prohibited their citizens from traveling. Sanmao became an icon of a free and independent traveler woman who created an imaginary about Spain and its culture for a whole generation of readers who now travel to our country in search of the writer's traces. A journey to the heart of Sanmao invites us to meet this essentially free woman and to explore the physical and emotional landscapes through which she traveled her legendary life in which love, adventure, literature and tragedy are inseparable. Welcome to the Sanmao territory!