La vida al borde

Teresa is a Literature teacher at a high school. She has two small daughters and is married to Vicente, with whom she barely shares anything. One night she discovers that she has a lump in her breast again. In a coming and going of positive and negative experiences - fear, pain, despair, but also hope, optimism, confidence - Teresa spends a month admitted to the hospital, where she becomes friends with Tomás, much older than her, who has just died. lose a leg, but not the will to live; of Paula, who at thirty-five years old retains the spirit of adolescence; of Felipe, his former student, admitted for a motorcycle accident. The narrative is mixed with the pages of Teresa's diary, with her memories from two years ago, of Carlos, that man with whom she felt alive again. Together, an environment is formed that is no longer associated with the predictable suffering in a hospital, but with the warmth of a family, with all its confidences and care, with all its possibilities of intimacy, love and feeling. "The people we live with are the ones who build our house, more than the bricks or the furniture," Teresa writes in her diary.