In addition to this Mary Zambrano already known to the specialists, this book refers to new aspects of her life and work, especially those who reveal the inflection of her thought from the years of the war and her exile, in which the presence of the sacred, a sincere heterodox spirituality and a sense of transcendence revealed through readings , but above all thanks to an inner voice he felt already in his teens and in which poetry and friendship with poets influenced so much.

Testimonies, those of this essay by Antonio Colinas, highlighted from statements by Zambrano herself, especially from her epistolary, some interviews and dialogues with the author. Beyond the convulsions of history and its social commitment, inner contemplation, certain friendships and her exile journey lead her to an unusual, courageous ethical and aesthetic experience. A semblance in addition to a rich inner journey, rich in innumerable trials.