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The story follows a Costa Rican boy growing up in the 1970s, moving between poverty at home, long hospital stays, and the quiet weight of illness. After months of treatment for tuberculosis, he is sent to the Sanatorio Durán in Cartago, a remote mountain hospital once built to isolate and care for patients with the disease. Seen through his young eyes, the place feels cold and strict, shaped by nuns, and rules that clash with the noisy freedom of his old life. The book revisits these memories showing how fear, tenderness and survival shaped his childhood.