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Cosas que brillan cuando están rotas
'On the 11th of March 2004 Madrid suffered the worst terrorist attack in its history. Ten minutes after the bombs went off, my mobile rang. I was working as a journalist back then. I spent the next two weeks on the streets, at the hospitals, at the morgue.' 'Things That Shine When They Are Broken' is a fictionalised account that seeks to understand the origin of evil and what happens when nobody knows the truth but the whole world feels ownership of it. It investigates the origins of loss in an environment where everything is part of complex systems, where some feel that everything in their lives and worlds is broken and there's nothing they can to do to repair it. Nothing, except using small gestures to avoid being defeated by the horror, with the bravery not to give in.