She enters her subconscious nightmare realm, allies with Prince Herneval, and battles the scheming Procustes before restoring balance between fiction and reality and publishing her work. The directors explicitly present the narrative as a feminist tribute to Mary Shelley's experiences with patriarchal limits, centering the protagonist's arc on reclaiming her voice through the male pseudonym and overcoming machismo in post-colonial Mexico. This framing introduces a noticeable but contained gender-struggle element that shapes character motivation and resolution without displacing the core fantasy premise or monster-adventure plot. The historical Mexican setting remains organic, with no race or gender swaps of established characters, keeping progressive messaging secondary to the story's imaginative framework and resulting in a moderate rather than dominant ideological presence.