Doretta's Damnation

Jilted by her lover, Doretta Osram flees Germany and finds a position with a publishing house in Zürich, Switzerland. She meets Fernando Lopez serendipitously while doing research at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Zurich Central Library). Finding happiness at last in the arms of her handsome Chilean lover, she marries Fernando on Valentine's Day of 1963 and gives birth to their first child, Mario, on the Ides of March a month later. However, when Fernando moves his family back to his ancestr