Niadela

Suppose you have been working on television for years, presenting a program in prime time. You have it all: fame, money, professional recognition, a rich social life... But you feel like something is going to crack. And you drop everything. But you really stop. Because you know that you drag a deep and very old wound that neither fame nor money nor recognition have been able to heal. And it's time to take care of that wound. This is the story of Beatriz Montañez. She decided to go live in a stone cabin, an old peasant shack, which had been abandoned for several decades. There was no electricity, no hot water, and no human being within fifteen miles. It was perfect, because it was time to bet hard, to see them alone with that hollow or empty woman. Extreme confinement? An experiment? An outburst? Not much less. Beatriz Montañez has been living in her modest refuge for more than five years... Simply dedicated to writing. The story that she tells us in Niadela is, ultimately, that of dispossession: abandoning herself in order to find who one really is. But how to make this motionless journey? As has been done for millennia: stopping your movement, separating yourself from the group or the tribe, sharpening your eyes and ears to understand what nature wants to tell you. Thus, Niadela becomes an exceptional exercise of attention, of observation, of listening; in other words, of pure nature writing, in which with patience, precision and with an extraordinary poetic breath, the author tells us about the constant evolution, as ephemeral as it is marvelous, of the life that springs up around her.