San Sebastián, Spain, 1939. A young Eduardo Chillida mustered the courage to ask a girl, Pilar Belzunce, to the movies. They married eleven years later and remained together for the rest of their lives, as Eduardo, supported by Pilar, developed an artistic practice that would earn international acclaim. In this memoir, their daughter—author and filmmaker Susana Chillida— draws an intimate portrait of the couple’s world, offering insight into their professional, social, and family life. Eduardo is captured not only as a pioneering artist and incisive thinker but also as a husband and a father, while Pilar is shown to be a woman and mother ahead of her time, as well as the “pillar” of Chillida’s life and work.

Both an extraordinary glimpse into the life of a visionary artist and a deeply personal remembrance, this book is, in Susana Chillida’s words, “a love story. A family story. And a story of the love of art.”