Journey

Santiago has grown progressively worse. He has taken to walking around the house naked independent of who is home. Santiago consumes alcohol throughout the day, and when it runs out, his thirteen-year-old grandson gives him money to continue drinking. Habitually he loses his cell phone and house keys. No longer driving since he is unable to recall where he parked the car. When his wife returns from work late into the evening, there is a standing altercation. Recently his wife called sick into work given Santiago knocked out her front tooth from repeated blows. Santiago terrorizes every single family member within the household. In thirty-plus years not once has his wife reported the domestic violence or any grievances instead she tends to her husband. Santiago has become adamant about not bathing. When he visits his mother, he speaks of how his family despises him while omitting his infractions. Santiago lives in a perpetual cycle of rage, slowly disintegrating as he desperately tries to hold on.