There are moments in life when you feel like the world has stopped. That time is divided into two: before and after.

For Valeria, that moment came one ordinary afternoon, when she returned to the house where she had lived with her mother, the only person who had always taught her to fight with dignity, even when life seemed like a minefield.

Valeria was only eighteen when her mother d.ied. D-eath, which always seems foreign until it knocks on your door, came without warning, leaving a void that could not be filled.