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In Montevideo, at four o'clock in the afternoon on a winter Sunday, there is a person who is living one of those moments that she will tell her friends, relatives and acquaintances about for years to come, always adding adjectives such as "incredible" or "unforgettable". She is a young Brazilian girl who came from São Paulo to spend a few days in Uruguay. She wears a leather jacket too light for the cold of this city and stands, a little nervously, in the living room of a small apartment in front of the man who sent her a message half an hour ago inviting her to stop by. You have to imagine the girl receiving that message from the unreachable man, from the actor she discovered playing the role of Numa Turcatti in the movie La sociedad de la nieve, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and released in theaters in 2023, which tells the story of those who survived the crash of the Uruguayan Air Force flight that crashed in the Andes Mountains in 1972, men who remained 72 days in the mountain until they were rescued. Imagine the girl receiving the message - "If you want you can come to my house now, I'm doing an interview but I have a little while"-, looking for the address, standing in front of the old building of a few floors in the Old City, ringing the doorbell and seeing Enzo Vogrincic himself, the man with whom she and her friends fantasize and dream about, opening the door. The girl is there, speaking in Portuguese and English, telling how they all made a book of letters and poems for him, listening to him say, "Do you want to come with me to the sun?". "El sol" is a balcony in the back of this rented apartment from where you can see the rambla and the Río de la Plata ("I could buy an apartment but I don't need any more. Here I wake up, open my eyes and see the water"). There is a bicycle (the same one he has had for five years, covered with black tape), plants, a model of a theater stage he built himself. They sit on a low wall, she modestly asks...