EPILOGUE AUGUST 5, 2014 Kurt had promised himself that he would visit Sara Sofia Ulo before returning home to Norway. He found her in a single room at Clinica Javier Pardo, a concrete colossus dressed in white tiles and inserted with the initials "CJP" at the very top in blue letters. "Hey," he said. She was lying in a room that was barely big enough to accommodate the bed she was lying in. The walls and tiles on the floor were like snow. The ceiling was painted sky-blue. If it hadn’t been for the smell of disinfectant and spirits in the air, Kurt could have sworn that he was suddenly in a completely different season. Sara Sofia's long, black hair was tied in a knot at the back of her head. Large bags under her eyes made her pupils appear blacker than usual. The scar across her right

