"Lilus Kirkus quiere saberlo todo. La curiosidad de Lilus no tiene remedio. No le gustan las muñecas y prefiere jugar al doctor ¡con moscas y lagartijas! Su imaginación la lleva a volar y volar en el mundo de sueños que habitan su cabeza, porque ahí todo es posible. Lo que de verdad le intriga es comprender por qué los adultos son tan raros, tan serios. Por qué cuando una crece se olvida sonreír. ¿A ella le pasará lo mismo cuando...

1937. British socialite and painter Leonora Carrington meets Max Ernst, an older, married artist whose work has captivated Europe. She follows him to Paris, and gains recognition under her own name. When Max and his circle are denounced as "degenerates" and arrested, Leonora battles terrifying circumstances to survive. 1940. A train carrying exiled German prisoners from a labor camp arrives in southern France, but face capture by the Nazis. Only one...

"The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionary--feminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystical, the interconnectedness of everything--are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society, and England to embrace new experiences and forge a unique artistic style in...