This book-object is a reflection on family structures and their codes of communication, on the fragile nature of their changing ties that are tenuous and sometimes incomprehensible. It gathers together a series of photographs from the seventies and a few contemporary snapshots, all of which are die-cut in the middle in the shape of a cross. Beside each image is a text based on brief thoughts that relates the progressive illness of one of the family members and the emotions unleashed by this fact.