Aurora Rodríguez set out to engineer the perfect daughter.
Pygmalion-style: she conceived Hildegart with a chosen father and raised her as a project. And the girl delivered: a prodigy writing on sexual reform and law by her teens.
Then Hildegart began to have a life of her own.
Aurora shot her dead in her sleep, in 1933.
A horror story about what happens when a child is a work instead of a person.