The map of affections, by Ana Merino

The map of affections
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Who has not lived a forbidden love story? Even if only because all love always ends up meeting some kind of disapproval even from mere envy. It is true that less and less happens that what is prohibited is limited to sexual freedom, naturally. But there are always taboos that are erected like moral totems.

The curious thing is that, contrary to what any type of prohibition, limitation or the aforementioned disapproval seeks, a love faced with the nemesis of the vision of others, gets up stronger, lives more intense, ends up enjoying more in front of minds constricted by the patterns of what is due.

That is why this story of the writer Ana Merino, led by a Valeria champion of irreverent love, of passion in front of everything, of the intense furtive beats and the emotions suspended from the unpredictable currents of destiny, she always ends up winning us with that I don't know what of impossible longing or lost opportunity that maybe we had or would like to have ...

Valeria, a young school teacher who has a secret relationship with Tom that is thirty years old, is faced with the dilemma of feelings and wants to understand the meaning of love.

In the town where she teaches, Lilian disappears for no apparent reason while her husband is on the other side of the world. Greg, a man who is lost by women, frequents a nearby hostess club to drive away his discontent, until one day he is discovered in the worst possible way.

From moments like these in the passing of a small rural community, we delve into the daily mysteries of its inhabitants. The lives of all of them will not only intersect over more than two decades, but will also be conditioned by the magnetic force of affections, the randomness of chance or the poetic justice that sometimes the most unexpected events bring us.

The map of affections follows the trail of people who build the hidden stories of places; places where absences and strange events are evoked, where inexplicable crimes occur, where personal and family tensions coexist and where only the drive for the good settles the necessary ground to continue living.

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