Summary

As Mallarino studied Samanta’s face, he could see no glimpse of the girl she once was when she visited his house years ago. He wondered if it was because something so traumatic had happened that it had caused her to erase her childhood and rebuild herself as an adult. He could not remember her or place her in his memory, but she wanted him to try to remember the details of a day twenty-eight years prior when she had visited his home.

Mallarino had moved to his house in the mountains in 1982 because he and Magdalena had finally split up. She had asked him if what he was doing was worth the threats and loss of friends. He believed he had been betrayed because she did not think it was worth it for her or for their daughter. Magdalena had doubted...