Zeno has undergone three cardiac catheterizations in a single year, yet his heart has not responded as hoped. Instead, his condition has worsened, and the strain on his body grows heavier with each passing day. Now, he urgently needs another procedure and a specialist cardiac consultation before the risk deepens further.
Illness does not come alone—hypertension, diabetes, and ulcerative colitis wear him down, leaving him unable to work. He lives with his wife in a shared home with his son and his family, while the cost of caring for his own aging parents adds yet another weight he cannot carry.
A father whose heart grows weaker by the day, a son trying to hold together two households with one hand, and a family living in quiet fear—that they may lose his heartbeat before they can find a way to save it.
