El sueño del jaguar

When a mute beggar woman from Maracaibo, Venezuela, finds a newborn abandoned on the steps of a church, she cannot imagine the extraordinary destiny awaiting the child. Raised in poverty, Antonio works as a cigarette vendor, a dockworker, and a waiter in a brothel before becoming one of his country’s most distinguished surgeons. He achieves this with the help of an exceptional woman—Ana María, the region’s first female doctor—with whom he has a daughter named after their nation: Venezuela. Forever bound to the place of her birth, Venezuela dreams of leaving for Paris, despite the odds being stacked against her. It is in the notebook of Cristóbal—the family’s youngest generation—that the myriad stories of this remarkable lineage finally take root.