It has been a long time since the closure of the thriller as a deepening of atavistic fears, in the psychological aspect that brings us closer to the demons of the protagonists. The already grown up Lisbeth Salander was a clear example of the takeoff of this type of noirs.
The English writer Abigail dean joins the party with a character no less haunting than Lisbeth herself. Alexandra or Lex (nothing better than to already offer two names with which to facilitate access to the double life), has that irreconcilable past for the soul. Because the harshness of the blows that life can strike marks the intangible that moves us.
It's not real but it looks like it. Because we all know of cases of parents who end up completely disturbed (if they were not already serialized like this) to lock up their children. Half sick protective instinct, half unscrupulous psychopathy. What will become of those children is something that assails us when we learn about them, when we discover news in which that, the monstrous happens again. Children who come out of the shadows of their own home with the alienating feeling that, contrary to all of us, that term home points more to a synonym for hell.
«You do not know me, although you will have seen my face. In the first portraits, they pounded our image up to the waist with pixels; even our hair was too characteristic to show. However, when the news and its guardians lost interest, it was easy to find us in the darkest recesses of the internet. "
Alexandra, a successful lawyer based in New York, receives the news that her mother, who died in jail, has appointed her executor of her will. Although no one in her environment knows it, the protagonist was Girl One years ago, the only one who managed to escape to ask for help from the house of horrors where her parents held their six children prisoners.
Now Alexandra must get in touch with her siblings, each of whom has grown up with a different adoptive family, including her strange brother Ethan, who has turned their childhood nightmare into a lucrative conference business.
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