A veces nadie : Un viaje al corazón de la soledad

Shortly after her separation, Casilda Sánchez Varela sets off on a solo trip. She doesn't yet know how to cope with her new life: shared custody, empty rooms, endless silent Sundays. She believes that getting away for a while will give her the strength to learn to deal with it all. On her first night on her way to Asia, flying over the ocean, something happens. A kind of luminous current cuts through the pain that has been with her for months. The very reality that was suffocating her becomes, for an instant, radiant. A surge of freedom. Disconcerted by this contrast, she decides to observe solitude. To question it. To understand it. To make it her own. Six years later, with her life rebuilt, she returns to Asia to put her past in order. In an Ayurvedic center, surrounded by others who have also arrived there alone, she traces an intimate map of contemporary loneliness: a couple who have fallen out of love, a woman who placed her worth in beauty and suddenly discovers invisibility, a lost teenager, a fascinating elderly woman navigating old age leaning on her cane. Through these stories and her own, she unfolds a powerful and poetic reflection on heartbreak, fear, emptiness, silence, the need for another's touch, and the search for meaning. In a world increasingly marked by loneliness, perhaps it's not about fleeing, but about learning to live with it, to make it a habitable, even beautiful, place. Because, as Emily Dickinson wrote, I would be much lonelier without my solitude.