Prologue: De te fabula narratur
Days of the dead
The Sophie letters
Miss del Valle
The mastermind
Interlude: Tere Huidobro
Little flowers
Sofia's belle epoque
Vocation
Respectable telephone operator
Preparing the future
Interlude: family albums
The catacombs
The voyage
The test
Gasparri's parrots
A long, hot Roman summer
The return
The peace
Interlude: las viejitas
Out of the shadows
The new woman
Resistance
Les femmes internationales
Terrible beasts
Winter in the city of light
Doubt
Lourdes
The road to Warsaw
Borders
Bridges
Interlude: walls
Miss del Valle goes to Washington
The plan
The deception of Miss Duffy
Consider the lobster
Golden hour of the little flower
On the road
La Patria calls
Postlude: day's end
Matins, a few days after.