Just to Be Held

Just to Be Held is the story of Maite, a middle-aged Catalonian living in Barcelona, Spain whose life as a woman, wife, and mother, has been defined by Christianity, fairy tales, and culture, leaving her ill equipped to carry on after the accidental death of her husband. Having lived in his shadow, she is abandoned by friends and her two sons, and assumes her husband's drinking habits, passing each day washing her life in vodka tonics-light on the tonic-waiting for God's call to heaven. In ...