'Polilla' is Muñoz's debut in an unjustly neglected genre, literary journalism or what in English they call personal essay. In a surprisingly serene tone, concise sentences, and measured metaphors, she recounts several trips to Sarajevo, ...
which began almost by chance when, right out of journalism school, the narrator joins an organized trip to the Balkans with the ambition of finding stories to tell.
There she meets and falls in love with Darko, of Serbian mother and Jewish father, virile and not as smart as her. She decides to separate from the group to follow him to a consensual kidnapping in his family home and a story of desire and submission: "I've been locked up for three days and I don't want to get out," reads the first sentence of the book.
