Los trillizos

A man spends the afternoon in the park. It's his first time alone with the children of his new partner, the mother of triplets. Since he refuses to interact with other adults in the same situation, he pretends to read the newspaper, in which he notes: "Family is an oppressive system." Ironic, biting, and witty, the narrator of this story is a man without children of his own who, in his fifties, leaves his former life behind to suddenly become the surrogate and occasional father of a large family, an alien world in which he tries to navigate as best he can. The new position in which this unexpected fatherhood places him allows him to address some of the crucial issues of the moment: the savior complex that afflicts the intellectual middle class in the face of racialized, migrant, and vulnerable people; the epic discourse surrounding caregiving, sometimes conceived more as a moral alibi than as an almost always involuntary obligation; The incompatibility between our fragile and subjugating work ecosystems and the need to have a life of one's own. Through this son of the working classes who migrated to the outskirts of large cities, transformed into one of those entrepreneurial professionals prone to empty slogans and predatory practices, The Triplets offers a re-examination of the figure of the cultural outcast and paints a critical portrait of those born in the seventies, that pivotal generation that sought to be an alternative to conservatism, and also to well-meaning social democracy, but ended up a victim of its own mythologizing, trapped in a dance of interchangeable concepts and codes of conduct.