La encomienda

The narrator of these pages lives five thousand kilometers from her native country, works for an advertising agency, wants to apply for a scholarship to go write in the Netherlands and holds regular videoconferences with her sister. She is there she sends him parcels, packages that include food, drawings of her nephews and from time to time a surprise, like an old photograph. Often the food arrives rotten. A series of figures and events will reveal the fissures that open up in the protagonist's daily life: the reception of a huge box that is difficult to open, a cat that walks around the building where she lives, the neighbors who are absent and those who knock on her door, the son of a neighbor, the comings and goings of her boyfriend, a homeless man...