Retrato de una mujer moderna

A young woman walks fast through the snow on the streets of New York one winter day in the twenties. She has a prescription in her bag that will allow her to buy a bottle of wine at the pharmacy to celebrate Christmas Eve with some friends. We are in full dry law. The young woman is Concha Piquer, she is barely eighteen years old and has been triumphing on the Broadway stage for four years, she has been involved in a homicide and has had contacts with the mafia. He arrived almost without experience, without knowing more world than the garden and some theater of his city, without speaking another language that was not Valencian. Before returning to Spain and becoming a symbol of an entire era, it also dazzled in Mexico and Cuba. The country girl returns wrapped in glamor and money, with several lovers behind her back and a secret son. From then on, his life intersects with that of writers such as Blasco Ibáñez or García Lorca, bullfighters such as Antonio Márquez, politicians, boxers, actors and actresses...Far from the stereotype of the cupletista, Concha Piquer was much more than that or, to be exact, she was everything but that. The story of this "modern woman" is also a tableau of an era in the history of Spain, that of the postwar period and the Franco regime. And Manuel Vicent recreates it with a masterful mixture of reality and fiction, and an ingenuity, finesse and irony unparalleled in Spanish literature.