Goodbye (en Espanol)

Tets? is a witless thug, living off his girlfriend. He has no profession, no goal, he can hardly speak. One day he will leave, never to return. Mika is a prostitute tormented by loneliness. When at last she finds a man who wants to stay with her, the resulting situation isn't as satisfactory as she would have hoped. Kyoko left her husband 2 years ago. Upon her return, she discovers that he has left the house exactly the same as the day of her departure. Yamaguchi and other businessmen have a bet: the one who guesses the number of deaths from a traffic accident the following week gets the money. But what's the point of money when each accident is a send-off, each hello is followed by a good-bye. That's the way it is and that's the way Tatsumi paints it for us in this masterful anthology of short stories: without sentimentality, without moralizing, with a narrative pulse that is almost like a documentary, and a sensitivity capable of moving even the most hardened reader.