Florencia Etcheves, a journalist for 25 years, left TV on February 28, 2018. "I wasn't being happy," she admits, and recounts the long internal process that led her to take the plunge.

She is sitting in her Nuñez house, suffocated by Chuki, the cat that she usually acts as a scarf and that silently accompanies the writing of all her novels, but she sounds liberated, full of air. The cause: that vocational "lover" who one day demanded formality, legality, to stop being a hobby.