Through letters written to herself at several different pivotal points during her life, Maya Heinecke tells the narrative of her life, and looks ahead at what's next for her.

On the 10th anniversary of her HIV diagnosis, poet Marina Vergueiro travels to Cuba to study cinema and discovers the story of Caridad, a woman who 20 years ago injected herself with HIV-infected blood when she discovered she was a lesbian and had no support from her family. Intrigued and curious by Cari's story and in order to understand her own traumas caused by the infection, Marina looks for her everywhere and, faced with the difficulty of finding her in a Cuba devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic, understands that the search is much more intimate than she initially thought.

For twelve years, military photographer Oleg Klimov recorded the collapse of the Soviet Union on film. He was present in almost all military and ethnic conflicts in the 90s. His photographs were on the front pages of many Western newspapers, as dumb witnesses of the wars in the former Soviet Union. But Oleg’s career also influenced his personality. After a few quiet years, he suddenly finds a military trauma in himself. Driven by inner longing, he returns to some places where he photographed people during the war: in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and Chechnya in order to find those who are depicted in the pictures.

If you could talk to your younger self, what would you tell her? In this 8-part video series, Fr. Dave Pivonka and Emily Stimpson Chapman engage in an often light-hearted conversation about her latest book, Letters to Myself from the End of the World, while weaving in Catholic theology, biblical wisdom, and life experiences brought up by recent world events. The book, Letters to Myself from the End of the World includes forty-five “letters” from Emily to her twenty-five-year-old self. Both personal and practical, these letters reflect upon sin and grace, the Church’s sacraments and saints, scandals and injustice, social media and prayer, suffering, adoption, motherhood, and much more. This book is a faithful guide for pursuing holiness and spiritual maturity in a world broken by sin. It’s also a testimony to the power of grace to heal our hearts, renew our minds, and transform our lives.

Natalia Solórzano narrates what is like for a foreigner to live in Pamplona, Spain

In a letter to herself, Soha Bechara, a Lebanese figure of the resistance to the Israeli occupation expresses her worries about her son Juan, who recently confessed to her that he was a boy in a girl's body. Soha reflects on her child's struggle and what it would mean for him if they had not left Lebanon to live in Switzerland.