Sofía's particular life story is woven into that strange limbo created between a suffocating motherhood and a hidden need for autonomy.
Because at twenty-five years of age, Sofia is very young, too young to dedicate herself to the care of her mother Rose.
Her mother's ailment is indeterminate enough to consider that it might not be such, or that it might not be so bad ... An illness that links her to her daughter until the end of her days, like a conviction for the debt of the previous breeding.
Because the father has not been around for a long time, and although Sofía considers looking for him during this story, the shadow that the blanket will always be of little use, with a certain hint of despair.
The point is that together, mother and daughter, they travel from England to Almería, where they hope to find some kind of cure in a reference clinic for patients evicted by traditional medicine.
Almería stretches out like a complete desert, like the life of Sofía herself, an anthropologist with a degree but unable to find a job and a life. But Almeria also has its beach, overlooking the Alboran Sea, where so many adventurers once traveled in search of new worlds.
And on those inspiring beaches, Sofía takes advantage of her free time to spread what remains of her soul. Until he meets Ingrid, a German resident, and also a lifeguard willing to help shipwrecks of all kinds.
Undoubtedly, the new characters entering Sofia's life avoid their own total shipwreck, or at least appear as rescuers for her most intimate plot. Defeat is less so when Sofía indulges in the strangest sex, as revenge for all her time spent under the burden of maternal illness and the tutelage of her domains with the rancid aroma of a matriarchal empire.
But of course, the contrast can always create internal conflicts and the couple disturbance of us as readers and discoverers of the imbalance that ends up turning Sofía's vital balance.
The metaphor of the hot waters where jellyfish abound in search of tremulous and hot meat to cling to ... improvised sex as a form of struggle against the impossibility of youth and life. The Almeria sun, at times generator of lights and shadows, overexposed images, but always intense ...
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