'Before oblivion arrives', the lives of two Russian poets forced to remain silent by Stalinism. The radiant narrative efficiency of Ana Rodríguez Fischer allows us to know the parallel trajectories of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvietaeva.

Anna and Marina belonged to equivalent well-off and cultured families in pre-revolutionary Russia. They both got married and had children, both capsized in some loves and also felt like owners of their destiny, one infinitely more unfortunate than the other.