In this collection of poems, Michela Gorini confronts the tragedy of her mother's cancer head-on. The result is a representation that stylistically always seems to "exceed" rationality: long lines, particular punctuation, split or truncated words, italics, a mixture of prose and poetry, scientific language and lyrical language, suspended periods, changing rhythms.
The mother's illness constitutes the instrument for a tragic self-analysis, which brings to light a profound filial love with multiple facets, including feelings of guilt and the terrible fear of future loneliness.