I have a lot to do today / necessary to kill all the way memory / you need the soul to stone / you need to learn to live again. "
And Denise also wanted to stop by the teacher that will be saved: the hide in the space between her bed and the wall.
The sisters entrusted to the nurse, spend the last period of the war always on the run, chased by French police than the Nazis and will always be protected from people who will take care of them: two Jewish children, orphaned and sick refugees in cellars and attics and boarding. We will, however, rejected by the grandmother who hunt them screaming that if their parents were dead, grandchildren he remained for the orphanage.
Denise and Elisabeth survive the war and throughout this period never leave the bag and preserved with love and dedication, but without having the courage to read anything
"Appearance - says Denise - that the owner of the suitcase to come back read his manuscript in person. I did not know that would survive. It 's a bit like when you open the mail, addressed to no, not yours and not the laws. So for me it was the suitcase. My only task was to keep it. "
On April I recall.
"Under the sky of April, my peace
is uncertain. The green light is now
change in the wind a whim. "
Sandro Penna, "Under the sky of April, "Poems, 1931
" April looks out, burn, burn the leaves
written on the sheets just written.
So quiet. The cruel month. It
April travels on strange rainbows. "