A Promise To Stephany

Here is a beautiful, slow-burning story set in Montreal and Bogota where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the streets of these two cities. For the class-minded Romero family, it was a tragedy, the mortal social sin committed by their son, Mauricio. Orphaned young Mauricio was the youngest brother in a family of eight siblings and was bound for a successful career in law, imitating his three older brothers. His passion was to become a professional soccer player, which took him to the wrong side of the city and the unwanted kind of acquaintances. In the process, he becomes blind to his own emotional life, allowing his sexual desires to drive his decisions, and he thinks he has outgrown his siblings who were once his entire world.

In this universal drama of family love and rebellion, isolation harbored and drove him to the underground. On a free fall from grace to anonymity, his actions result in a sudden move to Montreal and the decision for reconstructing himself in a foreign country, as an immigrant with no direction in life, only with the dream of becoming a writer.

The long journey takes the immigrant from emotional depravation and complete loneliness through an honest self-search and a quest for family. The power of having loved and lost, ever present in this honest recount of one's life and how it overcame the obstacles of a dangerous detour.