The novel Santa Maria de las flores negras addresses, from different narrative perspectives, the theme of the mass killing of more than three thousand people (men, women and children) in Iquique in 1909. Rivera Letelier juxtaposes novelistic truth to that of the official history, integrating multiple voices in the narration and constituting an image of a narrator that betrays his function of vigilance, even resorting to features of the romance novel or melodrama to propose that the utopia of another telling, that of justice, is always possible.