and takes place in Rome. Margarito is originally from the small Andean village of Tolima, Colombia but travels to Rome in order to begin the process of having his deceased daughter recognized as a saint. Margarito lost his wife shortly after the birth of their only daughter and she died soon after at the age of seven from an essential fever. Eleven years after her death the villagers are forced to move their loved ones from the cemetery to another location as the space is needed for a new dam. When his daughter is unearthed she is found to be still intact and completely weightless. The villagers decide that she is a saint and pool funds to send Margarito with his daughter's body to Rome. There he meets the narrator at the pensione where they are both staying. Nothing seems to come from his inexhaustible attempts to canonize his daughter and he eventually loses contact with the narrator and other characters of the story. However, twenty-two years later, and after the death of four popes, Margarito and the narrator meet again by chance and the narrator finds that Margarito is still waiting for his daughter's recognition as a saint. It is then that the narrator realizes that the true saint of the story is really Margarito. The narrator states, "Without realizing it, by means of his daughter's incorruptible body and while he was still alive, he had spent twenty-two years fighting for the legitimate cause of his own canonization." The Airplane of the Sleeping Beauty "The Airplane of the Sleeping Beauty" recounts García Márquez's personal impressions, when he fell in love with a woman in a Parisian airport at the first sight. By coincidence, she happened to be his neighbor on the plane he was taking later. The story expresses a voyeuristic adoration. I Sell My Dreams One day, while the narrator was having breakfast in the morning at the Havana Riviera Hotel, a gigantic wave crashed down ("like an explosion of dynamite") on the shore, picking up and overturning several cars. Under one of smashed cars was found a woman wearing "a gold ring shaped like a serpent, with emerald eyes". Her eyes and ring reminded the narrator of "an unforgettable woman", who used to wear "a similar ring on her right forefinger", whom he met thirty-four years earlier in Vienna, which was an old imperial city back then.