Born into a family of intellectuals and nurtured by reading certain books at a young age, Leila feels how her calling as a writer grows inside her. Her plans will be propelled hopelessly forward by an uncontrollable passion. Leila loses control of her own life, which becomes stamped by the indelible mark of lived experience. Love, adventure, hope and disenchantment, linked by fate and described in a supple, delicate prose that grabs the reader until the last page.