“All her life she has been told to believe, tried to believe, wanted to believe, that if a person suffers long enough, works hard enough, then she – like Ulysses washing up on the shore of the kingdom of brave Alcinous – will ultimately reach a better place. That through suffering we are redeemed. That by dying we live again. And maybe in the end that’s the easier thing. But Anna is tired of suffering. And she is not ready to die.”
