Every year the child received an anonymous gift just when he needed it most, without knowing who sent it. He grew up accompanied by those mysterious boxes without ever knowing the person behind them. At the age of 18 he decided to seek the truth… and discovered something that transformed his entire childhood.

The first time the package arrived, Daniel was six years old and still didn’t fully understand what the word “absence” meant.

His mother had died just three months earlier. The house still smelled of her: lavender soap, freshly brewed coffee in the morning, that mixture of heat and tiredness left by people who struggle all their lives without complaining.