My intention with this story is to portray our life for better and for worse. As far as some people are concerned, life is a struggle just to survive. We all have certain inner needs, which can be an obsession for some, whilst for others it is a relief to get on with one’s life. The love that we attempt to tackle as human beings is not always easy, neither to give nor to receive – indeed we all have a deep desire to understand, forgive, and be understood.
With ”The Family” I will try to describe how important it is that one recognizes one’s own ”me” and from time to time be confronted with one’s demons. Sometimes our untreated feelings, which lie there keeping watch over us, render us unable to reflect ourselves in our identities, and can make it difficult to love or be loved, sometimes become dormant, or disappear altogether.
This is a story of the past’s untreated and more or less secret traumas – Traumas that can have dramatic consequences for all of us, but in the end arrive nevertheless at some kind of reconciliation, fortunately, if the secrets come out into the open, and make forgiveness easier for those closest to us. The story shows that love, solidarity, honesty and faith are man-made concepts, that we do not always manage to maintain from fear of the consequences. But instead we turn to fear, suspicion and inner hatred, which in the final analysis can lead to one losing one’s self-respect.
Let the passion for love be the connecting link to life.
Thomas Raft