Madera quemada

Those who tell stories survive, her mother told the protagonist one day when she disappeared for several hours and left her alone in the house on the moors. The stories make sense of a messy world, and Edith learns to deal from an early age -despite herself- with arbitrariness and uncertainty, with the chaos of her mother's mind, an amnesiac writer. She also learns to work with wood, to burn it to make it more resistant, according to an ancient Japanese technique. When the crisis arrives, the abyss that opens in the center and devours everything, he secludes himself with her lover, thinking that he is safe in that isolated study by the river, and the first days of confinement have the intensity of a dream.