Justice almost always seeks compensation. In case it cannot be done, or even if it can be compensated in some way but some damage prevails, it also has punishment as a tool. In any case, Justice always needs the objective truth from which to qualify some facts.
But Alicia Berenson is not willing to say anything enlightening in the face of the evidence that unfailingly points her to the murder of her husband.
Without testimony from the accused, Justice always seems to be limping. Even more so for a society that observes in astonishment a woman whose sealed lips do not explain anything, they do not clarify anything. And silence, of course, awakens the echoes of curiosity throughout England.
If the opening plot already invites that special and fascinating sense of suspense in an introspective way towards the character of Alice, as Theo Faber tries to delve into those sealed motifs, the plot takes on more and more tension.
Alicia Berenson and her circumstances as a study base for this psychologist determined to bring light. A prestigious artist with a seemingly normal life. Until that click in the brain followed by five shots to the head from her husband… Then the silence.
Theo reaches the jail where Alicia is serving her sentence. The approach to women is obviously not easy at all. But Theo has his tools to tie a rope, to pull a thread from that silence as a refuge but from which every human must come out from time to time as an animal in its burrow. Not only words convey information ...
Until Theo comes to consider knowing everything. Because he, the only person who is approaching, descending into the well of Alicia's psyche, begins to fear that he will also be without light before the terrifying last truth that can await him and that will upset everything.
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