“Don’t call me a hero”

In the 80s, heroin not only took lives, it also broke families in silence. For a long time, that silence was marked by shame, fear and guilt. Stories that were not told… until now. Recent books and films focus on something key: what happens inside families, far from romanticized stories. They talk about distance, pain, anger and complex bonds. Because not all stories are warm, and putting words to those realities is also a way of understanding and repairing.

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