Màrius visits Pere at Centre Penitenciari Psiquiàtric de Salt . Pere looks exactly like him—same face, same body—but his eyes are wild, intelligent, and cruel. The conversation is chilling. Pere speaks in riddles, laughing at Màrius’s memory loss. He says: “Tu vas causar l’accident per oblidar. Però jo no t’oblidaré mai. Som la mateixa ombra.” (You caused the accident to forget. But I will never forget you. We are the same shadow.)
Child abuse, survival, the origin of evil.
Determined to uncover the truth, Màrius visits the town where he grew up: Sant Privat d’en Bas . The village is almost abandoned. He finds the old house—now derelict. Inside, the cellar door is still there. He forces it open and finds old children’s drawings on the walls, along with a small bone. He calls the police anonymously. Forensic analysis later reveals the bone is human, possibly from a child. Màrius begins to suspect that his brother Pere did not simply “run away” as Clàudia claimed.
Hidden evidence, childhood pacts, sibling rivalry.
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El protagonista. Físicamente fuerte, responsable pero cargado de culpa por el pasado.