Save the Fire

Marina is a wealthy married woman, mother of three children, and a successful choreographer. One day, two friends and patrons sponsoring cultural events in the penitentiary institutions of Mexico City invite the dance group she leads to participate in one of them and perform for the inmates. In prison, the heroine meets José Cuauhtémoc, serving a sentence for murder. A romantic connection with a criminal threatens the exemplary life of the heroine.

Arriaga, the author of the screenplays for the cult films "Kiss of Death", "21 Grams", and "Babel", created a dynamic, passionate novel about forbidden love and the deepest contradictions embedded in our very human nature.