The volume describes the odyssey of a middle-aged woman , Paola , married with children and professionally established, but he can not end his marriage in crisis, fears the judgment of the mother and cause trauma to the children . Suffered a stroke while going to meet up with the man with whom he could rebuild his life , he manages to escape death , but not aphasia , which was normally prevents it from communicating with the outside world . Disappointed by the men , then the protagonist faces a profound work of analisiintenore , "a journey in search of the lost words " vvero of itself, helped by a speech therapist, a psychiatrist and a young doctor who falls in love with the nutritionist venendone reciprocated .
With a prose sometimes cruel in outlining the negative figures of the novel, however inkpots creates a work characterized by the bottom of a deep trust in life, transmitted in particular the figure of Paola , who manages to find the time of greatest weakness that strength interior , which until then had lacked. In recent days, Matilda was interviewed by Alfonso Signorini on the book and on the subject of aphasia , in the program " Alfonso Signorini Show ' on Radio Monte Carlo every morning at 9 o'clock. The author was awarded the third prize of the narrative XXI international Literary Prize Alias in Melbourne, Australia for the story " Quanza the matriarch " and a warning about the poem " and ' Africa ' .