He still remembers his eyelashes. Long, dark, almost unreal on that small, pale face under the operating room lights. At 33, Lucas was performing his first solo operation: a five-year-old child, the victim of a serious car accident, whose heart was compressed by internal bleeding due to aortic damage. That night, he opened a tiny chest with trembling hands… and he saved a life. Twenty years later, in the hospital parking lot, that same child, now grown, screams that he destroyed everything.
