In the 70s, the Chinese writer and traveler Sanmao lived an exciting love story with the Spanish submariner José María Quero. They traveled to the Spanish Sahara where Sanmao embodied his daily experiences in the book Tales of the Sahara, a bestselling phenomenon in Taiwan and China. Sanmao became an icon of an independent woman and protagonist of a life with legend dyes where love, adventure, literature and tragedy are mixed.