Born in the mountains of Aïntachos, Tara Westover grew up close to nature, obeying the laws set by her father - a fundamentalist Mormon, convinced that the End of the World is coming. Tara and her siblings do not go to school, nor to the doctor when they are sick; they work with their father, while their mother is a practical healer and the only midwife in the area.

Tara has a talent, singing, but also an obsession, knowledge. She enters a school class for the first time at the age of seventeen: she does not know that two world wars have taken place, nor the exact date of her birth.

Soon she discovers that education is the only way to escape from her home. She starts from scratch, gathers the necessary strength and prepares for the entrance exams at the university, crossing oceans and continents, and graduates from Cambridge. Although for this she will have to break the bonds that connect her to her family.

Westover has created a global and inspired story - her own story - about education and its power to give us new perspectives and outlooks on life, filling us with a desire for constant evolution.