Hellcat

A fierce woman goes in the face of the feminine norms of her time to become a ruthless pirate.   The year is 1870. A voyage by ship changes Emilia Burton’s life forever. Her vessel is hijacked by a band of pirates who slit the throats of all the passengers.   Everyone, that is, except her and Marica Rivero, a midwife traveling with her eight-year-old daughter. Not long after, Marica went from being the lover of her daughter’s executioner to leading one of the fiercest pirate gangs in the delta of the Río de la Plata. As witness and protagonist, Emilia writes a diary that becomes the testimony of a story that delves into the sinister and savage figure of The Hellcat, a woman feared like few others. Inés Arteta reimagines a true story and transforms it into an earth-shattering fictional tale.