A woman facing the sea. A seemingly perfect marriage that hides an abyss of unspoken words. Carol lives a life that anyone would envy: a surgeon husband who adores her, a daughter who needs her, and a publishing job she is passionate about. However, beneath this surface of everyday happiness, the memory of a past love with another woman beats like an open wound. Through three journeys—one with her family to Barcelona, another with her husband to the coast, and a third, clandestine and solitary—Carol navigates between the present and the past, between what is and what could have been. Her personal notebooks, true channels for a language that finds no space in her everyday life, reveal the depth of her inner conflict: the desire to stay and the temptation to flee, maternal love and the longing for freedom, the impossibility of forgetting and the need to move on. With lyrical, fragmentary, and deeply poetic prose, María Domínguez del Castillo constructs a novel about female identity, desire, and motherhood, about the impossibility of language to express all that we are, and about how we learn to live with our own fictions. A courageous and honest exploration of the complexity of love in all its forms, of the decisions we make and of those possible lives that fall by the wayside.