, 1h48 Directed byCarlos Saura OriginEspagne GenresDrama, War, Biography ThemesFilms about writers ActorsIsabelle Adjani, Hanna Schygulla, Ignacio López Tarso, Carlos Bracho, Gonzalo Vega, Héctor Alterio Roles ami de Vasconcelos Rating58% Anna, a modern day Parisian psychologist, is researching the cases of women who committed suicide in the 20th Century. She becomes fascinated by the story of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, a Mexican writer and social activist who committed suicide inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. To find more about Antonieta's story, Anna travels to Mexico and interviews people who knew her. She receives her first clues about Antonieta's life from Juana, a Mexican librarian who frames the live of Antonieta Rivas Mercado within a stormy period of Mexico's history, the political turmoil of the 1910s-1920s.