“Mum, shall we pretend I was little again, as small as when I came out of your tummy?” “Love, you remember you did not come out of my tummy, don't you?” “Yes, mum. But what does it matter? We are pretending.”

The journey that brought little Lina Isabel from Bogotá to her new home in Rome, and also the journey of Irene Alison, who adopted her in 2019: a discovery of motherhood, a novel in pictures made and chosen by the author, which led her to the discovery of another self she perhaps did not believe existed.