La luz perdida

The 20th century is drawing to a close and in Soviet Georgia the cries for self-determination are becoming louder. The fate of four radically different girls is linked by the courtyard that separates their houses in a Tbilisi neighborhood. Together, Dina, Nene, Ira and Keto, the narrator, navigate the end of childhood and the beginning of adult life, experience their first great love and face violence and precariousness that erupt with the independence of the country and the arrival of a turbulent democracy that will end up opening an inescapable gap between their families.