Those Who Left

Set in Bogotá in 2025, this literary fiction explores a group of six survivors gathered to reflect on a long-outstanding secret and a novel written by their late colleague, Aurelio Vargas. Through their night of wine and memories, the story probes themes of silence, witness, and the cost of unspoken truths, as they confront what they saw, what they chose not to see, and the repercussions of those choices. A thought-provoking companion to Gómez’s Those Who Stayed, the novel invites readers to consider the moral complexities of bearing witness to harm.