Dina & Darlene
Dina & Darlene are taught from a very young age about silence. Since they are hard to look at, their father says, its best they stay quiet. This advice never works. Instead of talking to the outside world, they speak to only each other for years.
When they are infants, Dina opens her mouth, and out floats hearts, and they land on Darlene and kiss her big baby belly. In her throat a heart gets trapped and gets married, starts a family, grows old but never dies, keeps multiplying in this intergenerational way. The twinkle of the heart echoes through their shared esophagus.
As they age, the hearts leak from Darlene’s mouth, spilling from a golden tongue what it means to love, to crush. Even when there are no words between them, there are always words. Who do they love the most but each other?