I began to worry that now they would begin to talk about Karen and about the other cannibals from the Hilton, but Paolo remembered something else:

- Mom came back a day later. She and her father had gone to rummage around the fish docks, because there was nothing in the nearest stores. The apartments were locked or monsters were hiding in them. I believed they had found a place to sleep. Maybe it was some office or a doctor's office. Mom walked up the stairs. She could be heard sighing and saying "no, no." Her belongings were covered in blood. I saw her through the peephole, how she was...