The family can be that space full of unspeakable secrets hidden between habit, routine and the passage of time. Felicity, a recent graduate in medicine, is about to orient her medical vocation towards humanitarian tasks. She is young and impulsive, and maintains the kind ideal of helping others, so she is determined to march with an NGO towards Afghan lands.
And that's when something breaks in your family nucleus. Her father alerts her that her mother has not returned home. He had gone to the residence where his grandmother, Déborah, spent her last days to rescue personal belongings.
His mother's clue is clear. The movements of her card guide her on a plane trip to Italy. And that's where Felicity travels too. His father stays at home Handicapped as he is, in his wheelchair, it would only be a drag on the search.
When he finally finds her, his first idea is to reprimand him for his incomprehensible escape. But the state in which it exists, completely beside itself, as absent, leads it to a new approach. Various press clippings and documentation are spread around his mother. Among all the papers, a grandmother's diary stands out.
Felicity then begins a dark journey to the past, where she will learn incredible aspects about the life of her grandmother and her great-grandmother Elizabeth. Amid the turbulent reality of XNUMXth century Europe, both women led their lives weathering conflicts and wars as best they could, facing evil and succumbing to it under dire circumstances.
A fast-paced tale of changing scenarios where we discover the ties of generations of women whose secrets seem to have no end. Once Felicity begins to investigate, thanks to the diary, we find ourselves immersed in a frenzy of the lives of Elizabeth, Déborah, her own mother and what it may mean for Felicity in the future ...
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