Motherhood, which we almost always associate with happiness, can also be a nightmare: that of a woman whose child disappears in the park where she was playing, and that of that other woman who takes him to raise him as her own.
Set in a context of deep physical and emotional precariousness, the story of these two women, mothers of the same child – a child who is first called Daniel and who will later be renamed Leonel – and mothers, in addition, of the same emptiness, confronts us with the preconceived ideas we have of intimacy, family violence, social inequality, loneliness, accompaniment , care, guilt and love.
Brenda Navarro has achieved a prodigy: always walking, without ever falling, on the thin line that separates – but also unies – forgetfulness and memory, hope and depression, private life and public life, loss and encounter, women's bodies and political act. Emp...read more
