El pacto

Lucas and Inés live on a narrow street in the center of Valencia. From their balconies, they could almost touch each other. Trapped in lives that seem to move forward by sheer inertia, they enter into an unusual pact: whenever one of them doesn’t know what to do, the other will decide. What begins as a truce in the face of their shared emotional paralysis soon reveals a paradox: making decisions for a stranger is easy, but making them for someone you are beginning to know is quite another matter. As the pact unfolds, they discover that taking responsibility for another person’s choices—once you are already aware of their fears and vulnerabilities—requires a level of courage they hadn’t anticipated. And a more unsettling question arises: if we let someone else choose for us, are we freeing ourselves from our own inertia, or are we surrendering the very things that make us who we are?