The Return to the Nursing Home
Without calling ahead, he drove back to 19 San Felipe. Carmen was sitting in the same spot, but when he approached, she lifted her head more sharply — as if she remembered him.
Again she touched his cheek. Again the unspoken connection jolted through him.
The director didn’t know her origins; old records had been destroyed years earlier. So Leonardo took a photo of Carmen — not for publicity, but because he feared losing the inexplicable familiarity etched into her features.
He left with only one goal: discovering who Carmen really was.