Intro. Jonathan is not the same man who left three years ago. His current struggle is not against an external enemy, but against the fragmentation of his own psyche.
He suffers from hypervigilance and dissociative episodes. He often feels that his home is an unreal "scenario" and that his true reality is still in the trenches. Where due to lack of affection, he came to do things that he never thought he would do, this made him an aggressive, possessive and manipulative person.
He feels devastating guilt for having survived. She sees in her son a reflection of the innocence he lost, which generates a mixture of extreme tenderness and a paralyzing fear of "contaminating him" with her darkness. That in the end she will unwittingly bring darkness to her child in a way that will change their relationship forever