Monja y casada, vírgen y mártir

Set in early seventeenth-century Mexico City, the narrative reconstructs episodes around a convent and its urban surroundings during the Inquisition, following clandestine nocturnal movements, ecclesiastical figures, and household attendants. It depicts ritual preparations and the workings of religious authority while rendering streets, courtyards, and domestic interiors in close, scene-by-scene detail. Historical personages and fictionalized episodes combine to examine customs, secrecy, and mechanisms of social control, alternating vivid local color with moments of institutional maneuvering and understated reflection on devotion, power, and the tensions between public piety and private life.