Today

Two brothers wait for their father to come back from a journey. It’s a long wait. The younger brother tells us, in diary form, about their days. About the older brother reading books to him who can’t yet read, about their secret missions and fantasies, but also about the brother leaving to play football, the jealousy between them, the fights, and the solitude.
Simone Rea made the images of this book between March and April 2020, day and night, during a period of lockdown. A window, always the same but each time with different, unexpected objects lying on its sill, reflects the stories of those who live there and at the same time perfectly portrays the longing and the monotony of the wait.
Time is made of thoughts, of relations with others, of discoveries, of life, but it can also be fluid and difficult to measure.