La memoria del alambre

What happens when the mother of your former best friend reappears twenty-five years later to ask you what her daughter was carrying in her jacket pocket the day she was hit by a train? This is what happens to the narrator of this deep and fast-paced story. And from that enigmatic and painful first email, she begins to delve into her memory to recover the teenager she was, the couple of friends she formed with Carla, two intrepid young women who wanted to live very fast. She then remembers the high school where they studied, and their forays into the pool halls and nightclubs of a Valencia in the late eighties. A time when music still mattered, and soundscapes were the most powerful conductor of emotions, the last habitat of adolescence. Following the conversation with the mother of her friend, the narrator reconstructs her own memory until she reaches the route of the bakalao, where the death of the melody coincides with that of innocence itself.