The main character, Andrée, finds the courage to grow as a person and the strength to survive as a strong woman.
Her journey begins when she is abandoned by her family, with no other option until she becomes a nun assigned to a mission in Haiti. She has to flee for her life to survive a revolution between the Vodun and French farmers. With a priest, René, she finds refuge in the mountains in a Taíno Indian village, and without the Church to define her role, she falls in love with the rebel priest. And escapes Haiti by boarding a ship to Cuba. It is the beginning of the several intriguing deceptions in the story, when they abandon their positions in the Church and travel as husband and wife.