The Barefoot Queen Av Ildefonso Falcónes

<p><b>1748, Seville</b>: Caridad, a recently freed Cuban slave, wanders the streets of the city. Her master is dead and she has nowhere to go. When she meets Milagro Carmona - a young, rebellious gypsy - the two women are instantly inseparable. Milagros introduces Caridad to the gypsy community, an exotic fringe society that will soon bring them love and change their life forever.<br><br>From the tumultuous bustle of 18th-century Seville to the theatres of Madrid, THE BAREFOOT QUEEN takes us into the murky world of tobacco smuggling and ther persecution of the gypsies. <br><br><i>Showing us the birth of Flamenco, it is a historical fresco filled with characters that live, love, fight and suffer for what they believe.</i></p>