Mi nombre es Celestina

Salamanca, 15th century. When young Celestina is abandoned by her mother at the home of an old healer, she is unaware that her childhood has been forever cut short. Sancha attends births and performs abortions, prepares love potions to attract men, and gathers herbs by moonlight to concoct infallible remedies. At her side, the girl begins to discover the secrets of desire and the need women feel to support one another in a man's world. From the sordid margins of society, Celestina will learn to survive in an era where everything, even the most sacred, has a price. Celestina is, without a doubt, one of the most iconic characters in Spanish literature: a cunning, ruthless, and deceitful old woman, whose first name eventually became synonymous with that of other procuresses. Starting from this idea, Desirée Baudel shows us that, before becoming the unscrupulous old woman who went down in history, Celestina was young and a child, and she does so by offering us a fascinating novel that is at the same time an honest portrait of many other women who refused to accept the rules of a society that condemned them in advance.