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Strong-minded and fiercely independent, Magdalena was born into an oppressive patriarchy that offered little, if any, opportunity for girls. Seeking to make her fate different from the one to which she is destined, Magdalena feels separate from the world around her. Her mother, uniquely talented and sensitive to her daughter's struggles and the futility of the fight, creates a life of song, dance, and magical stories to soothe Magdalena's spirit. Offering an escape into art and imagination, her mother shelters her child from life's inequities. Though tragedy, abandonment, and heartache still find Magdalena, she is gifted with spiritual vision and enigmatic ideation and finds deep insight through her hardships and an ultimately mystical journey.