What literature, faith, and, above all, mutual love can do in the face of illness and loss.

Hölderlin wrote, "But where the danger is, also grows the saving power." This is the balance evoked in this letter addressed to the child who will soon be baptized even though his mother is critically ill. The author, witness of the tightrope life in which this young mother tamed the vertigo of death for an unheard of "life of more," entrusts to this letter everything she learned from this crossing of the wire.