Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in.

Everything is new to Alita, every experience a first. As she learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield Alita from her mysterious past while her street-smart new friend, Hugo, offers instead to help trigger her memories. A growing affection develops between the two until deadly forces come after Alita and threaten her newfound relationships. It is then that Alita discovers she has extraordinary fighting abilities that could be used to save the friends and family she’s grown to love.

Determined to uncover the truth behind her origin, Alita sets out on a journey that will lead her to take on the injustices of this dark, corrupt world, and discover that one young woman can change the world in which she lives.

Las investigaciones que articulan este volumen se vinculan con todo aquello que se refiere al monacato femenino en America y en la peninsula iberica. La pluralidad de perspectivas, que abarcan multitud de disciplinas humanisticas (arte, archivistica, arquitectura, cine, historia, literatura, etc.), es el componente esencial de la seleccion de los trabajos que configuran Desde el clamoroso silencio. Asimismo, la gran variedad de temas abordados revela su importancia aun desde una perspectiva cronotopica, puesto que se analiza el monacato femenino en America, Espana y Portugal, desde la Edad Media hasta la actualidad. El contenido de este monografico, pues, evidencia la relevancia y el valor que la vida monacal suponia para las mujeres del ambito luso-hispano.