No one knows her real name, not even Conchita herself knows who she is and where she comes from. Chita is what the Spanish fisherman, Feliu, calls her, who one day rescues her from the arms of her dead mother before she drowns, after a hurricane has ravaged the coast of New Orleans. He and his childless wife, Carmen, give her a new home. But what does the happiness they share depend on, while the storm has wiped out entire island villages, destroyed lives, and torn families apart? Is it that Chita's father, the man who knows her real name, is dead? Or that he lives in the belief that his daughter is dead and will never see her again? Yes, this novel is inexhaustible, touching and full of color, captivating in the pull of a language with which Lafcadio Hearn presents a magnificent natural spectacle. This little masterpiece is a whirlwind that tells the story of a hurricane.