Spanish actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón lost her mother less than two weeks ago. Now her daughter, Bruna Lucadamo, has come forward with a public letter to her grandmother - a text that retells, in a few lines, what every Balkan woman already knows about grandmothers.

"My beautiful Fiorella, my nonna, I love you madly and I carry you inside me. My blood is your blood and I can feel it running through my veins. I take you with me everywhere. I will keep you alive forever - by retelling your stories, by imitating your phrases, by remembering... I miss you," Bruna wrote on social media. Aitana replied with only a heart.

The 57-year-old actress, born in Rome, has been left without both pillars of her life. Her father, Ángel, a history teacher and translator, passed away in 2007. Her mother - a teacher of natural sciences and mathematics at an Italian liceo - was the person Aitana had always publicly described as "her refuge, her guide, and the one who saw her vocation as far back as her childhood."

This Tuesday, fragmented but determined, the actress returned to work. She uploaded a photo in the white coat of Dr Pilar Amaro, her role in the third season of the Netflix series "Respira." Shooting goes on - for her professional life, and for the private one that has been pulled back into the public eye by an unexpected romance with Maxi Iglesias.

Bruna and her brother Teo are the two children from the relationship with the artist Papin Lucadamo. They are who Aitana has now. The Balkans understands this well - when the old people leave, only the children and the photographs remain. The rest is work, routine, and an attempt to keep going.