r.vivian literary agency

Synopsis

What does Bianca dream of during her summers in the country house? Perhaps that her father spends some time
time with her away from the piano. Or that her mother stops silently judging the world with her cynical gaze and decides to listen to her, to embrace her. Or maybe she dreams that her sister Luna stops following her everywhere and disappears forever. And that's exactly what happens.
She, the favorite, the daughter her father always dreamed of, by pure fate meets death during an escape into the woods. The secret mechanism that made their family work falls apart and everything collapses. If Bianca is silent, dark and rigid, Luna was her exact opposite. In the eyes of everyone, she appeared to be a sunny, cheerful and frighteningly gifted child. She succeeded at the first attempt in everything she did. In an almost natural way she knew how to bring out the best in everyone. Even in her mother, who in her presence seemed helpless, as if Luna were immune to her poison. Perhaps for this very reason Bianca never accepted her. She exercised the tyrannical power of her older sister over her, the one that allowed her to control her thoughts, direct her gaze, generate doubts and anguish in her. But there was something in Luna that not even Bianca could possess. A milky light, a divine touch that made her appear as a true gift of nature. She is so different from the others, equal to no one, capable of pity towards living beings and yet tormented by nightmares of a future desert world. The nightmares that Luna had with her eyes open and that she punctually reported to Bianca. During their last summer together, Luna and Bianca meet Bruno, that is, their first love, that each one experiences in her own way and that Bianca will then search for, as an adult, in the fleeting shadow of a boy who could resemble him.
Through a restless adolescence, the abandonment of his mother, who was unable to face the
pain, and forced cohabitation with her father, a failed musician, Bianca grows up and finds her way, even when the memory of the time spent with Luna becomes overwhelming and undermines everything else. She meets Sara, who in her light-heartedness and carefree way of taking life represents almost a hope for her: salvation from the sense of guilt for having hated her sister. But there is something in the world that awaits them, a threat that has become concrete and that is about to condemn the destinies of all living beings.
For unknown reasons, animals are suddenly disappearing, the prophecy that emerged from the nightmares of
Luna is now reality. Just as real is the remorse for her death, for the jealousy that Bianca felt as a child
he felt for her. Even if jealousy is after all just another form of love, the same one that still ties her to a father defeated by his own obsession. Now that time is up and extinction is near,
What is left for her to save? Perhaps only her conscience.