Madrid, 1597. Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui, the first noble mestiza of Peru, heiress of the two prevailing and opposing forces, one of the most powerful and wealthy women of the time, begins to write in her own handwriting the hidden story of her long and eventful existence, in a confession addressed to those who must judge and defend her mestizo memory. From her childhood in Lima, when at only seven years old she had to flee to save her life and that of her brother after the brutal murder of her father, to her days at the court of Philip II, the Mestiza, a succulent piece in the checkerboard of the Conquest, will narrate an existence that runs between the desire to be free and the dictates of the Pizarro surname and her mother's imperial lineage. A struggle to safeguard what he loves and recover what rightfully belonged to him, in which the fierceness of love acquires an extraordinary dimension. Her soul, hardened in the roar of war, had to face the end of what her father had achieved