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Five Minutes Before Sunset

Do we really have control over our lives? Do our losses divide us or unite us? If our youthful years were never idyllic, innocent, and promising, how much can they determine our future?

Six old classmates meet again after many years. They did not plan it. Fate wanted them to be in the village where they were born at the same time. Memories, dreams, grudges, and repressed feelings resurface, and old wounds reopen. How much has the past ultimately defined them? What traps did they set for each other and for themselves? Just before every hope fades that they can become whole again, that perhaps one day they will connect their scattered pieces, they discover that, in some cases, to move forward, you must first look back.

For how long can someone tolerate the malice of others? How long can one pretend to be a tin can for others to throw their garbage? How far do the limits of patience and tolerance reach, and how many teeth must indignation muster to gnaw at the woolen garment of softness that covers anger and hatred?

Therefore, freedom has its price. It awaits you like an old witch to throw you into the cauldron with her potions to see if you can endure, and then she throws you into the frothy sea and says, "swim." That’s how freedom is. It is not given to anyone. It wants you to endure both the hot and the cold. Are most people fools who have never even been close to it?

ISBN 978-960-14-2013-4