The purest initiatory journey is the one that moves you to know yourself. If you can also get to know what moves someone who accompanies you on the trip, the route becomes a satisfactory transcendental plan, a perfect vital communion.
It may be that, deep down, our dearest people are just strangers whom we do not know in those circumstances that require us to become who we really are, beyond our daily routines and costumes. We may also not know ourselves amidst the closed circles that define our day-to-day existence.
Albert Espinosa does not speak of an easy trip with well-marked stages. Walking to know ourselves and to know who accompanies us requires a total openness, a sharing of pasts and longings, a journey through the sadness of losses and longings without a solution.
The mere fact of sharing all that, the good, the bad, the hope and the melancholy leads to comprehensive knowledge. The process of knowledge between a father and a son, their sharing of their souls becomes the background of this story.
But Espinosa, in addition, knows how to provide the necessary action, and the precise arguments for the plot to advance, so that we notice the characters very alive, until we are soaked in their perspectives and get completely moved by them, as if we were advancing by their side.
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