One dark and stormy night, Mo hears her Inner Voice urging her to begin
writing her memoirs. Having ignored her Inner Voice's advice once
before, with near-fatal consequences, she decides, this time, to do as
she is told. Mo looks back on her life, beginning with the crucial
moment when she met another cow, who introduced herself as La Vache qui
Rit, and assured Mo that there was nothing more stupid in this world
than a stupid cow. Mo spends her life trying to prove to her friend
that, despite being a cow, she is not at all stupid. Besides, she has
her Inner Voice and a great desire to live! Set in the aftermath of the
Spanish Civil War, in which defeated Republican supporters are still
being persecuted by victorious Nationalists.
It paints a funny, touching portrait of friendship and freedom and the
sometimes-difficult process of finding oneself,