In the 1970s, Malina Yarza - last living member of an aristocratic Peruvian family - inherits a business that's millions of dollars in debt. In her fifties, penniless and armed with only a finishing school education, she refuses to declare bankruptcy. Instead she sets out to save her family's reputation and discover her worth in a country that doesn't take women seriously. When asked why he wrote this story, author Verne R. Albright explained,...