La vida juega conmigo

"Tuvya Bruk was my grandfather. Vera is my grandmother. Rafael, Rafi, Erre, is, as you know, my father, and Nina ... Nina is not here. She is not, Nina. But that was always his most exclusive contribution to the family, "notes Guili, the narrator of Life plays with me, in her notebook. But on the occasion of Vera's 90th birthday party, Nina returns: she has taken three planes that have taken her from the Arctic to the kibbutz to meet her mother, her daughter Guili and the intact veneration of Rafi, the man whom, Much to her regret, her legs still tremble in his presence. This time Nina is not running away: she wants her mother to finally tell her what happened in Yugoslavia during the "first part" of her life. At the time Vera was a young Croatian Jewess madly in love with the son of landless Serbian peasants, Milosh, imprisoned on charges of being a Stalinist spy. Why was Vera deported to the re-education camp on Goli Otok Island and she had to be left alone when she was six years old?