Ramny and the Sap of Love

By: Franklin Díaz

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Synopsis: A story of a very deep frienship, sublime loves and abysmal obsessions. A young real estate manager visits an old friend of his family who months ago had bothlegs amputated, at the same time his wife and mother, hisonly two companions, died. The old man alone and desperate, tkae refuge in the solitude of his house and his thoughts, but Fernando begins a struggle to get him out of his voluntary confinement and rescue him from economic misery. Both begin to meet in the evening's in the old man's house to tell each stories of the loves they have in their lives. At the same time Fernando meets Ramny, a very young cousin, who is several years older than him, and with whom he falls madly in love, becoming so obsessed that he tries to commit suicide whe he sees that she's slipping through his fingers. In the end, the old man, recovered from his material and phsycological isolation, has to initiate the rescue of his young friend from the intricate world of his obsessions and the frantic desperation that keeps him trapped.