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Tes­ta­ment tells the sto­ry of a young woman whose beloved grand­fa­ther dies, trig­ger­ing her quest to find the truth of his past.

In some pho­tographs he looks like a fright­ened child; in oth­ers he is quite hand­some, almost sul­try, albeit in a boy­ish way. He had large, expres­sive, dark eyes and wore his black hair slicked back in the style of 1930s adolescence.

When a text dis­ap­points us with an anti-human mes­sage, we will avoid the sin of pre­ma­ture for­give­ness, of let­ting the text off the hook too easily.