The last trip of a soldier killed in the Falklands war

A moment from the work 'Darwin's jump' Esmeralda Martín

Even caressing in her arms the urn with the ashes of her dead son - "murdered," she says - in the Falklands war, every night the mother leaves a light on in case the handsome young soldier decides to return.

He had always done it that way.

And he will continue to do so during those three days when the family travels the 3,744 kilometers by car to reach the glaciers in southern Argentina and dump the boy's ashes there, just as he had requested.

The bulb does not go out.

Neither expected ...

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