Ahora y entonces

From the window of her house, Mrs. Sweet looks in perspective at her present and her past, her now and her then. The moving anatomy that she draws of a decadent marriage -Mr. Sweet has begun to hate her- also tells us of a broken youth, since she emigrated to the United States "on a banana boat", as her husband insists on pointing out. Despite the happiness and relief provided by her children, young Heracles and beautiful Persephone, few things can distract her from her obsession with the erratic progress of her garden or from the room next to the kitchen where she often locks herself to eat. interrogate the past