The Terrible Power of Fiction (2026)

María Finojosa recalls the precise instant her husband, Spanish colonizer Juan de Cervantes, grew fixated on building a settlement to immortalize their family lineage. Set in the 19th-century Costa Rican highlands, her memory of his delusions—as quixotic as the fictional knight himself—spools out like a vintage film reel, flickering against the unrelenting rain and the ever-present fissures between reality and imagination.