It is perverse to know each other under what circumstances. It is likely that from the disastrous moment in which you meet someone in an adverse circumstance, every time you see their face, you relive the ordeal that united you to him / her.
But at the same time there is something of essential humanity in the tragedy, of union in the face of a common enemy that is not easy to defeat. The ICU becomes a space for coexistence for four mothers faced with that unexpected enemy, with that evil of various representations that has entered the most beloved part of their lives, their children.
In those unexpectedly shared moments, between tangible emotions that constrain breathing from the depths of the soul, between contradictory sensations born of fear and despair, moments between the deeply tragic and the therapeutic emerge, for the protagonists and for the reader.
The routine becomes a happy memory, the normal becomes an exceptional fiction of what could have been. Love acquires the force of absence with its imperious physical need. Everything overflows. The four women go through loneliness together, four mothers whose loneliness makes them accomplices in misfortune. They will cry together, they will curse fate, they will face their unsettled emotions ...
But with the control of events completely lost, there may even come a moment of reconciliation with life. Carmen, one of the mothers, has an opportunity to reverse events. Her daughter was run over and wanders between the two shores, however her intervention as a mother can be essential so that she does not leave ...
I was struck by his particular quote from this book, brought from a context as distant as it is appropriate for those moments of absolute unreality. Fiction is the space where we accommodate the reality that we have to live. The author brings this quote from the book Dracula: «Welcome to my abode. Enter freely, of your own free will, and leave part of the happiness it brings. In the ICU of any hospital you always leave that part of you that was happy, momentarily or completely.
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