As the car drove quickly on the highway, the suffocating seascape gradually disappeared from view, the dense forests and damp swamps began to cover the color in the pupils, becoming darker and more turbid, and the high-spirited mood slowly precipitated, and even the restlessness gradually dissipated, leaving only a heavier and heavier confusion, dragging the soul into the boundless darkness little by little.

Charlize couldn't help but lean her head lightly on the back of the chair and rolled down the window, the oncoming wind blew so that she couldn't open her eyes, and she couldn't even breathe smoothly. So Charlize simply closed her eyes, raised her chin slightly, and let the wind rage even more violently, as if her whole body had disappeared into the wind, which gave her a fragmentary, brief relief, and her tense shoulders loosened slightly.

Hugo looked at Charlize in the passenger seat from the rearview mirror, the gloomy color between the eyebrows was like a mist lingering on the top of the mountain, which could not be dissipated all year round, and always rose and fell above the delicate eyebrows. This made Hugo exhale softly, and although he had expected such a scene - because it was the same when he went to the Angolan prison to film "Death Row Walk", he was still a little worried when he saw the heaviness of Charlize at this time.

Over the past three weeks, Charlize and Erin have exchanged six or seven letters, and things have gone far more smoothly than expected, and Erin quickly agrees to Charlize's request for a meeting. In Erin's words, "I'm now free, death is the only thing I want, and I don't want to go to the grave with a lie." So, I don't have anything to hide."

The prison also quickly gave Hugo convenience - this is also a side of Hugo's influence today, the review process is much faster than others, and the application for Hugo and Charlize to visit is approved soon after.

So, Hugo and Charlize drove to Florida and made a special trip to visit Irene.

Today is Charlize and Erin's third meeting, Charlize's mood is also declining little by little, from the initial excitement, anticipation, and excitement, the aura around the whole person is slowly suppressed, and the prison is like a dementor devouring happiness, eating away all the sunlight around it, corroding the soul step by step, and making people completely escape into darkness.

Hugo had been through this before, and he was lost in the endless gloom and gloom, and the darkness of the world made his struggles useless, and even began to give up his struggles in the end, allowing his soul to become smaller and smaller.

That feeling is not just scary or frightening, but more of a struggle and suffering. To make matters worse, he couldn't even call for help, as if he was screaming as hard as he could, and the heart-rending shouts had caused his lungs to cough up blood, but still no one could hear him, only his own voice echoing in his head. That's what really makes you feel tired – the fatal blow when you're so tired that you want to give up.

Now, Charlize is also going through this process, Hugo is watching Charlize slide into the abyss step by step, but he can't reach out to catch Charlize. Because he knows that this is a process of Charlize in self-exploration and self-challenge, and he can't and can't ruin this opportunity, otherwise all Charlize's previous efforts will be in vain.

Thinking of this, Hugo's mood couldn't help but become heavier, the indescribable depression made him a little sick to his stomach, the feeling of vomiting boiling in his chest, and the smell of corruption floating in the dry air was even more unbearable. Hugo knew that the prison was ahead.

Seeing the prison reveal its ordinary appearance little by little, Hugo skillfully took out the pass, raised his hand to greet the security guard at the door, released the brake, and the car slowly entered the prison guarded by layers.

Hugo drove the car into the parking lot, and Charlize, who had been closing his eyes, suddenly opened the door, which made Hugo startled, and hurriedly stepped on a sharp brake, and then saw that Charlize didn't wait for the car to stop steadily, and walked out of the car quickly, and then turned around and walked quickly towards the intersection.

Hugo hurriedly pulled the handbrake up, and before he even had time to turn off the engine, he hurriedly got out of the car and shouted, "Hey, what are you doing in such a hurry?" Wait for me. ”

Charlize didn't look back, and shouted impatiently, "Leave me alone." Then he strode forward, but the thin sunlight seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and pressed the weak shoulder, so that Charlize's steps staggered, and the faint back loomed in the bright light, as if it would be shattered by the sunlight at any time, completely dissipated in the dazzling halo in front of him, and then turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared.

Hugo stood by the car door like this, looking at Charlize's back almost deserted, and his heart still couldn't help but heavily. Even though he had experienced it himself, he still couldn't control the worry in his heart, afraid that Charlize would be completely defeated in the next moment, as if a high-rise building would fall apart without warning, the kind of crisis of destruction that could not be prevented once it happened, made Hugo tremble.

In the three weeks leading up to coming to prison, Charlize was in mixed shape. Hugo has been accompanying Charlize to read the script, and most of the time the two of them are reading the script as rival actors; Occasionally, Hugo will also play the role of Erin Enos, helping Charlize understand the whole story and cut into the story from the perspective of a bystander.

Charlize gradually enters the world of Erin Enos, and at the same time gradually gets lost in that chaotic world. Not just Charlize, but Hugo as well.

Irene's world has always been gray, it is a world without light, abandoned by her parents, abandoned by her grandparents, abandoned by men, and even the only biological brother who is willing to hold hands with her has died early because of throat cancer. In the process of growing up, she never gained love and trust, just like a moss that grows silently in the dark, and lives shamefully in a corner of this world that no one notices. Even as a prostitute. Female, Erin's market is not good, and the men just treat her as a cheap. The Son satisfies his own desires. Hope - she's only worth twenty dollars.

Even she was disgusted with herself.

In that dark world, she finally met a person she wanted to protect, met a person she was willing to give love and trust, and for the first time she really aroused her enthusiasm for life, so she tried her best to grasp this straw, tried her best to protect the faint light, and prayed sincerely that this light would not be extinguished. Because of longing, because of fear, because of eagerness, she was like a moth to a fire, at the cost of burning her own life, chasing that ray of love, and becoming a bloody and cruel serial killer.

But the most ironic thing is that the light that she was willing to give up her life to protect finally left her, leaving only her broken soul.

In the eyes of many, Erin is dirty, disgusting, cold-blooded, ugly, terrible, murderous, and unworthy...... It's like a piece of moss in a corner, an ugly scar in nature, but there is no need for it to exist. People see Erin as a beast, a monster, a devil.

But in fact, she is just a lone wanderer who is desperate, trying to find someone who is truly by her side in this cruel and bloody world, and that's it. It's a story that's scary because it's too real, and it's also sad because it's too real.

What is really scary is, is it a serial killer like Erin, or is it the society that created a terrible demon like Erin? Maybe both. "She's unprofessional, but she's scary", Hugo still remembers such an inconsequential sentence from the documentary about Erin Enos filmed by the Discovery Channel, but it is the most direct proof of the darkness and decay in Irene's heart.

It is an indisputable conclusion that Erin was the most heinous of crimes, and she brutally strangled seven men; But Erin is also pitiful and pathetic, she has been searching for love and trust all her life, but in the end it still comes to naught, and she even loses the ability to cry.

In fact, this has some similarities with the "Death Row Walk", should the murderer be forgiven? Can the murderer be redeemed? Can the death penalty really liberate the heart? When we simply and rudely equate murderers with monsters, when we deceive ourselves with the truth that "society is indeed bad, but crime is still a personal choice, which is unforgivable", do we dare to look back and reflect on ourselves: does the indifference of society have its own "credit"?

Charlize was tormenting, and Hugo was suffering. They watched the Erin Enos documentary filmed by the Discovery Channel more than a dozen times, and Leonardo watched it with them at first, but after five times, he couldn't stand it anymore, and the inner torment almost made Leonardo collapse.

This also made Leonardo truly realize that the road to acting is very long, and he has just begun, the effect of "Titanic" is only temporary, he can be drunk and dream as before, but he can also continue to take steps on the road of acting like Hugo.

Inadvertently, this unraveled Leonardo's knot. Later, "female." The Adversary" script was read aloud, and Leonardo joined in.

When he was in Lanchez, Charlize was tormented, but he could still control it, but after coming to the prison and talking to Erin face to face, Charlize's situation deteriorated, and now it is so serious that "Charlizer" is disappearing little by little. Hugo knew it was a good thing - because Charlize was really starting to integrate into Irene's world, but he couldn't see it as a good deed, and his worries grew heavier and heavier.