Characters
- Paulina Salas — around forty years old
- Gerardo Escobar — her husband, a lawyer, around forty-five
- Roberto Miranda — a doctor, around fifty
The time is the present and the place, a country that is probably Chile but could be any country that has given itself a democratic government just after a long period of dictatorship.
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