La metamorfosis infinita

It's called Alegría. She is nineteen years old and has her whole life ahead of her. Tonight she has agreed to go out with her classmates. She dresses in front of the mirror in the oversized t-shirt that reveals her shoulder, showing off her favorite butterfly tattoo. In the kitchen, she says goodbye to her mother. They live alone in an apartment on the outskirts, the first home they have managed to build after a past marked by violence. Now, after many years, they are finally at peace. What neither of them knows is that the kiss with which they say goodbye in the kitchen is the last one they will give each other. Returning home at dawn, Alegría meets a group of men in an alley. An alleged flirtation escalates to aggression. At the hospital, Alegría's mother only arrives in time to hear the most terrible sound a mother can face: the last beat of her daughter's heart. Alegría's death shakes a country outraged by the murder of another woman. Massive demonstrations ask for an exemplary sentence for the Descamisados, a nickname with which the press has baptized the group of aggressors. But the trial ends with an unjust sentence. This time, Alegría's mother is not going to bow her head in the face of violence. Not again. Alone, she plans revenge against the murderers, inspired by the natural phenomenon that so fascinated her daughter: the metamorphosis of butterflies. To carry it out, she will need help. And she will find her in a group of strangers with whom she maintains a bond as unexpected as it is amazing.