In 1973, Chinese writer Sanmao (Echo Chen Ping, 1943-91) marries Spanish naval engineer José María Quero while living together in the Spanish Sahara. Sanmao recounts her daily experiences in Tales From the Sahara, a book that is a best-selling phenomenon in Taiwan and China. Sanmao then becomes an icon for independent women and the protagonist of a life that takes on legendary overtones: love, adventure, literature and, finally, tragedy.

Sanmao: The Desert Bride

Josefina's personal journey to Nuremberg, Germany, where she arrived as an immigrant from Franco's Spain at the age of eighteen, along with two million other Spaniards who left home to find a future.