A Word From You

A Word From You is the portrait of two women —an extraordinary contribution to contemporary Spanish literature—of two images reflected in the same misshapen mirror, of two life paths, one toward cruel emptiness at the end of a cruel life, and the other toward redemption and a future full of possibilities. And in the mist of all this, fear, mercy, forgiveness.

Rosario and Milagros are garbage women, and they’ve known each other since they were girls. Sus días parecen todos iguales, un eterno día gris sin remisión, la falta de horizontes de sus vidas es claustrofóbica, hasta que un día encuentran un recién nacido entre la basura. En un gesto de locura y desesperación, Milagros convencerá a su amiga de no informar a la policía para poder quedarse al bebé. A partir de ese momento la vida de las amigas dará un vuelco, sus días serán inesperados, alegres y coloridos, sin embargo, la sombra de la tragedia planeará sobre ellas.

As seemingly vulnerable as she is firm, despite her contradictions, Rosario tells of the years she has spent beside that force of nature that is Milagros: years of slip-ups, of happiness, of fear, of realities than have made them grow afraid of not deserving to be happy.