18th April 2013: a mother dies. Abruptly, unexpectedly, and a few decades too soon. No time to say goodbye.
Two daughters are left behind with a bunch of unanswered questions and the immediate awareness to live life to the fullest. What if she had gotten unwell at home and not in South Africa? What if we had managed to get to her sooner? What if we hadn’t cancelled our last mother-daughter trip because “we were too busy at work”? What kind of grandmother would she have been? What would we have said to each other if we had been given an extra day, or half an hour? The crippling pain subsides over the years, visions for the future are adjusted. We make plans, trips, poems and new memories without her, but always about and for her. We keep looking for her in birds resting on the windowsill, in signs given by the cosmos and in the eyes of our own daughters. And, of course, also in the series we try to develop. Elke Neuville as writer, Maaike Neuville playing the main character.