“For my taste,” burbles Chilean Author María-Luísa Bombal, “the grim, documentary type of writing is overdone today. I prefer—what you call—escape.” Because escapist literature is Hollywood’s meat, ...

Eva, a teenager with many emotional problems, meets the spirit of the Chilean writer María Luisa Bombal, to whom she comes to grant any wish. Eva immediately asks for it: Destroy the world, but before ...