It is a cold winter in Santiago de Chile and Sara, a sixty-three-year-old retired secretary, will live alone for the first time in her life. Far from being sad, she feels that she will finally be able to carry her own life. But Julia arrives at the apartment building, and the throbbing youth of this new neighbor will also bring new lenses with which to look at reality. While cutting expenses to survive on a paltry pension, Sara looks back at her life and the past. To the memories add up the aging body, loneliness and faint projects. And yet life gives her a chance. Will it be too late to take it?

In Sara, an impressive psychological portrait awarded the 2017 Gabriela Mistral Literary Games award for an unpublished novel, the author Maivo Suárez brings before our eyes a character that has rarely been written about: a separated and poor old woman, the perfect second-best, whose details she manages to draw thanks to an accurate and devastating analysis that underlines the shortcomings of today's society. A literary debut with the soul of a classic.