I decided here to write about my weakness, my strength, my surrender, my fear, my courage, my will, and life. I decided to challenge myself, between those letters, to write about my experiences, my failure, my mistakes, to ask myself a lot about all of that, about every reason that destroys me, and about every reason that makes me stronger. .
Here in this book you will find me advising myself one day, surrendering another day, accepting and satisfied, and angry and dissatisfied with everything at other times.
You will find among all of this a question that I researched in my experiences in order to answer it. I do not have the answer to it because your experience is different from my experience. Read my answer and search for your answer.
I write here because I care about me, I write here because I care about you.
When you decide to surrender, you must also decide not to, and when you decide not to, you must face some weakness until you find the strength within you.
I hope you find what you are looking for here, and I find what I want from writing.
Following the Pinochet coup, which overthrew President Salvador Allende, thousands of Chilean families emigrated to escape the new regime, including the Lucho family, who headed to Germany.
For his parents, time stopped the moment he left Chile, waiting for the moment of return, and the world was divided into two parts: the lost homeland, and the remaining countries, and like an entire generation that refuses to accept what happened, they sank into (ghettos) of sadness; Europe was offering them lungs of freedom, but it was also inflicting on them the pain of distance.
As for Lucho, Germany was a different country full of what was worth living: he had daily challenges in the street and school to live, new cultures to discover, friendships, enmities, quarrels, and the first heartbeats he had to experience; All this without forgetting his inherited duty towards his motherland.
About the obsessions of asylum, failures, dreams, and disappointments, Scarmetta leaves his teenage hero to tell his story, presenting us with a charming model of friendship, companionship, and the struggle for justice.
