title: Torera
author: Sardanas, R. Paul
description: Torera spans thirty tumultuous years in the life of a woman bullfighter. Lucretia Maria Calderon turns her back on a dance career, plunging instead into the wild and dangerous life of the Spanish bullfighting circuit. Filled with honor and tradition, it is also a career noted for passionate obsession and excess, shadowed by the possibility of sudden death. She will also indulge in two intense love affairs, powerfully erotic, which highlight the dual nature of her life as she bonds sexually with both the naive and loving dancer Christian and the dark, harsh matador Diego, known as El Diablo, The Devil.