The Girl who was Cyrano by Guillermo Baldo Translated by Sebastián Gutiérrez
Valentina, who is not a child anymore, becomes a child again to tell us about a girl who sometimes is a girl and sometimes is a boy. A girl, who like a little Cyrano replies to love letters from her best girlfriend, but signing as a boy. Together, they build a trench, a shelter. The exchange of love letters and words becomes more and more frequent, as the little girl is pushed to face emotions she can’t classify nor understand. She is in love. There is more and more correspondence, as well as efforts to keep up with the lies. Some news will change the course of things…