What if, one ordinary morning, a simple childish remark called your entire reality into question? This is exactly what happened to Natalie, mother of a six-year-old girl, when her daughter Ila said to her in a calm and confident tone: “Mom, I saw a girl at school, she looks exactly like me.” A childish remark like so many others? Not this time.
At first, Natalie isn’t really worried . After all, children can have vivid imaginations, especially at that age. But something in Ila’s voice catches her eye. And a few hours later, in front of the school gates, doubt becomes certainty: another little girl comes out hand in hand with Ila. Same look, same smile, same birthmark … It’s not just a resemblance. It’s like a living reflection .
A maternal shock impossible to ignore
Natalie feels her legs give out. The girl’s name is Ava, she’s just been enrolled in this school, entrusted to a foster family after being found as a toddler, with no trace of her origins. Natalie’s heart races. She then remembers a painful episode in her life: the eventful birth of her twin girls, in a bustling hospital, only one baby delivered, the other declared dead .
