Niña no more

Niña No More

A love story mostly set in the early part of the 21st century between a Peruvian cholita painter named Sonya Anchay Carrera and Michael Camilleri, a somewhat older architect from Houston, TX. As a tourist, Mchael meets Sonya in Lima and follows up their instantly torrid romance by a long-distance email and cellular courtship to return to Peru just before 9/11 to see if they can make it permanent. When Michael equivocates about his commitment, Sonya moves on to parley the help of a former lover the writer Martín Vasquez to make her dream come true of becoming a serious landscape painter depicting the wonderful colors and light of her native country, and eventually she becomes a renowned artist and commercial success in Paris. After Michael overcomes his dithering once more to make one last effort to connect with Sonya, she chooses the security of her helpmate countryman instead. When Michael finally retires and finds less happiness in his own dream of composing classical music less realized, he returns again to the Peruvian Andes to cleanse his soul and atop the magnificent Los Altos on the way to Chile serendipitously encounters the newlyweds Sonya and Martín, and the three sing and skip happily back down to the coastal plain to begin building the dynamic new ciudad oral for the masses…