Mi hermano

After the death of their parents, the brothers of Miguel, a forty-year-old man with Down syndrome, must decide who will take care of him. And he's the older of the two boys, a misanthropic divorced college professor who has stayed away from his hometown for years, who surprises his sisters by offering to take responsibility. Miguel is barely a year younger than he is, and the memory of the affection and complicity they shared in childhood leads him to believe that the new situation could save him from the apathy in which he is immersed and redeem him from the long distance. However, sharing everyday life with Miguel brings unexpected problems, and the silence of the old family farmhouse, lost in a remote and lonely village in the interior of Portugal, will inevitably confront him with the past and the complex relationship that he has. join Miguel. My brother is a moving and beautiful novel that flees from sentimentality to offer us a lucid portrait of brotherly love.