Malintzin considered herself an Aztec princess from childhood, but soon after her father’s death she had to learn what slavery was. Having almost died of hunger, the girl accepted her fate and became an auianime - a woman who sells her body. But when Spanish ships dropped anchor off the coast of the Eastern Sea, the beautiful Malintzin had a chance. Having become Hernan Cortez's translator, assistant and lover, she led him to victory. So who is Malintzin? Traitor? A passionately loving woman or a grain of sand in the millstones of history?