Interno di famiglia

Author: Anna Paola Lacatena

The story gives voice to the thoughts of a couple and their son as their separation becomes inevitable. The parents look back with tender melancholy on what once bound them together, quietly accepting that the love of their early days has faded away. Yet it is the son’s voice, saved for last, that reveals the deepest wound: beneath his struggle to appear happy, as he’s been told to be, lie anger, confusion, and the desperate need to believe he is not to blame. Through his words emerges the quiet truth of someone who understands he cannot save what is ending, but still hopes that love might survive in mutual respect.