The civil war had ended when Margarita Beese Rodríguez was tried and imprisoned in Tenerife for falsifying her birth certificate under the name Juan Carlos. The doctors who testified in her favor spoke of "medical anomalies" that pointed, in some cases, to Margarita's "intersexuality" and, in others, to her "homosexuality," a common confusion of terms at the time.

With a mother from Tenerife and a German father, Beese experienced the cultural and political effervescence of 1920s Madrid, directed a magazine, wrote feminist texts from conservative positions, and in the 1930s entered Falangist circles until becoming a close collaborator of Pilar Primo de Rivera.

Was Margarita a queer Falangist? Can today's gender labels be applied to postwar Spain? Why did she travel to Nazi Germany after leaving prison? Why does her name not appear in any official document of her party? Can a mystery be reconstructed more than eighty years later?

As she did with her first acclaimed book, Lunática — which inspired a season of the podcast De eso no se habla — Andrea Momoitio turns a handful of confusing clues into a fascinating investigation, narrated with an unprejudiced and unmistakable mix of energy, anger, and curiosity.