I took an uncertain step forward like I was hypnotized, feeling the blood leave my head. What was happening to me? Was it a coincidence that after the accident I became a witness to increasingly bizarre incidents? Or was it simply that from that point on, I was more capable of enduring, of absorbing what would be revealed to me? It was as if my senses were learning to detect the absolute darkness and there, in the shadows, a hidden life was unfolding, demanding its share of reality...