Arrived in Paris without a penny in her pocket, Mata Hari quickly established herself as a star dancer at the beginning of the twentieth century. Elusive and independent, she seduces the public, bewitching the richest and most powerful men of the time. But her flamboyant lifestyle is scandalous and soon attracts worries while paranoia seizes the country at war. Accused of espionage, she was arrested in 1917 in her hotel room on the Champs-Elysees. By making the voice of Mata Hari heard, Paulo Coelho tells us the unforgettable story of a woman who paid with her life her taste for freedom.