The story of La Llorona, “The One Who Cries,” is one of faith and faithlessness, passionate love, and shocking loss.
Llorona was a very beautiful Aztec princess, beloved by a Spanish conquistador. Alas, the Conquistador abandons her and in her madness and sorrow, she goes to the nearby lake and drowns their children and herself. La Llorona—the “weeping woman"—now haunts Mexico's lakes looking for children to steal.
It is a story Germán heard many times as a child. And it was Llorona’s passionate tears that inspired Germán’s greatest creation.