Sanmao, la novia del desierto (Sanmao: The Desert Bride)
Alejandro Amenábar
The story of the Chinese writer Sanmao brings us closer to the life of a woman who built a powerful literary world that has opened the doors of her country to a western and distant imaginary. Her public personality became an icon of modernity that was helped by the evolution of her own story, which was marked by tragedy and mystery, still undisclosed to this day.
Synopsis: In the 1970s, the Chinese writer and traveller Sanmao had a passionate affair with the Spanish diver José María Quero. They travelled to the Spanish Sahara where Sanmao captured their daily life in the book Tales from the Sahara, a best-selling phenomenon in Taiwan and China. Sanmao became an icon of an independent woman and the lead figure of a life with legendary overtones, mixing love, adventure, literature and tragedy.
