A rewriting of the Wizard of Oz from the Wicked Witch of the West's perspective. She's really a good witch who has a perfectly good explanation for all the seemingly evil things she seemed to have done. If only you knew the circumstances, you'd like her, really you would.

In May 1980, fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in Barcelona. For seven days and seven nights no one knows his whereabouts. His story begins in an old quarter of the city, where he meets the strange Marina and her father, Germán Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Oscar to a cemetery to watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, a coach pulled...