Anas Nin transforms the raw material of her personal diaries into a haunting and lyrical work of fiction. At the heart of the novel is Sabina, a woman torn between the desire for passionate, sensual, uninhibited experience, and the constraints of societal norms and personal guilt. Caught in a web of lies, affairs, and inner contradictions, Sabina becomes both the observer and the observedforever questioning whether one can pursue sexual freedom and emotional intensity without destroying the life built around them.

Written during a time of deep emotional complexity in Nins own life, the novel is a rich psychological portrait of fragmentation, longing, and the cost of living a double life. With poetic intensity, Nin probes the tension between fantasy and reality, art and truth, love and betrayal.