She had been writing fiction for some time for her own personal use. However, the shock of the pandemic led family doctor Alba Martínez to seek in writing a way to "find emotional closure," to say goodbye to those she knew. patients who died from COVID-19She had known them for years and had shared medical diagnoses, medication plans, and also confidences about how things were going at home, with her husband, her wife, her children. Until the virus took them suddenly, and in many cases, "when it wasn't their time."