A tough and emotional journey in the last straights of the 19th century; a story written in several voices: that of Sisca, 15 years old, imprisoned because women did not own their own bodies; those of women like Concepción Arenal, a prison visitor; and Juana de Vega, key to understanding our story, and a further "choir of bad women", who call out their encounters with sexual predators. The novel is written to counter forgetting, to recover the memories of the excluded, the prisoners incarcerated in A Galera, A Coruña in 1863. It shows us those who noticed: women like Arenal and Juana de Vega who tried to give these people their dignity. It is also a hymn to the role of books and reading in improving people's lives, in giving hope to the hopeless. The novel has an atmosphere, and above all, a plot that is both well constructed and replete with different literary registers.