The weeks immediately after childbirth resemble a journey through the desert. A desert inhabited by monsters: the new sensations that attack the child, inside and outside its body.After the warmth of the womb, after the crazy embrace of birth, comes the frozen loneliness of the crib. Which crib? - it has been abolished. In its place came the cage-bed. And then emerges a wild beast, hunger, that bites the baby's intestines.