We are warned that the past can never be covered, or covered, or of course forgotten ... The past is a dead person that cannot be buried, an old ghost that cannot be cremated.
If the past had those critical moments in which everything turned into what it shouldn't be; if childhood was broken into a thousand pieces by the strange shadows of the cruelest reality; don't worry, those memories will eventually dig themselves up and touch your back, knowing that you are going to turn, yes or yes.
A tiny town in Maine ... (what good memories Maine, the land of ghosts of Stephen King), children stamped against the harshness of a broken childhood. The passage of time and the flight forward, like the fugitives from Sodom, only wishing to become statues of salt before having to recover the flavors of the past.
Jim and Bob try to make their lives, away from what they once were, confident that while they cannot bury the past, they can move away from it in physical distance. New York as the ideal city to forget yourself.
But Jim and Bob will have to come back. They are the traps of the past, which always knows how to recover you for its cause ...
Synopsis: Haunted by the strange accident in which their father died, Jim and Bob flee their hometown in Maine, leaving their sister Susan there, and settle in New York as soon as age permits. But their fragile emotional balance is destabilized when Susan calls them desperate for help. Thus, the Burgess brothers return to the scenes of their childhood, and the tensions that shaped and overshadowed family relationships, silenced for years, surface in an unpredictable and painful way.
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