Truce
''Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.''
Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary and three moody children, widowed accountant Martín Santomé is about to retire. He assumes he''ll take up gardening, or the guitar, or whatever retired people do. What he least e...
''Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.''
Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary and three moody children, widowed accountant Martín Santomé is about to retire. He assumes he''ll take up gardening, or the guitar, or whatever retired people do. What he least e...
