Ogni creatura è un’isola

How can one fill the void of loneliness when it surrounds you on every side, like the sea surrounds a rock? That is what the protagonist of this story asks himself, having moved to a remote island hoping to find answers about the disappearance of his brother F., who may have killed himself on these shores. The truth, however, seems far away, hidden in the silence of the island’s inhabitants; unclear like the pages of the book that his brother left unfinished, and to which he is trying to write an ending; ineffable like the fear that paralyses him and pushes him to increasingly close himself off; unreachable, like the whale-shaped island that he observes from the shore. At least until he meets J., a girl on a red bike, who seems to hide the key to understanding what happened to F. and to dissolving the veneer of silence behind which he finds himself prisoner.