Elena knows

Elena knows her daughter couldn't have committed suicide by hanging herself from the tower. After her body is found, Elena, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, tries desperately to uncover the truth and prove that her daughter couldn't have walked in the rain and killed herself. She defies everyone-her illness, the police, and her neighborhood-to find the truth. She embarks on a journey to "e;Isabel,"e; a woman she hasn't seen in twenty years, asking her to become the body that will help her investigate herself. Elena knows her daughter well, "e;or so Elena thinks, because she is her mother, or was her mother. Elena believes that motherhood comes with certain things; a mother knows her child, a mother knows him, a mother loves him. That's what they say, that's how it is. She loved her daughter and still loves her even though she never told her, even though they fought and drifted apart, even though their conversations were like the sting of a whip. Even if she didn't hug or kiss her daughter, she felt a mother's love."e; Therefore, she must continue her journey despite the hardships of her illness, defying old age, disability, and everything else, even what Elena doesn't know and what she denies. In this novel, Claudia Pineiro transcends the usual elements of crime fiction to raise pressing moral questions, challenging the hypocrisy and many of the prevailing beliefs in her society at their core, in the name of perseverance and a willingness to change.