It is the story of great happiness then great misfortune. First, the solar encounter: love at first sight, a beautiful love story. Then the brutal fall – death, the shadows over a radiant life. Come mourning, precariousness, prostitution to survive. Kika – yes, she has the same first name as the heroine of Pedro Almodóvar's eponymous film in 1994, but has nothing to do with it – becomes a mother and a prostitute, a transgressive double role.

Kika, social worker, doesn't cry. She...