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Ariel uses a graphic novel created by himself to establish a stronger bond with his son Franco who is a very antisocial boy. Ariel narrates his life when he was a boy during the dictatorship and how it changed when his parents decided to give shelter for ten years to the most wanted people during the Pinochet regime. 'Clandestine Stories' reveals how solitude and lack of communication are two of the definitive characteristics of our contemporary society (both attributes came from unexpected facts: in the past with the MIR militants arriving to Ariel's house, in the present with the communication problems with Ariel's son, Franco) In relation with the present story: it is said that technologic makes shorter distances and stronger bonds among us, however Franco's hermetic attitude toward his father offers a contrast with his fluid conversations with his virtual assistants Siri and Cortana. Franco feels better and more comfortable behind the technologic shield offered by the artificial intelligence than a warm human contact, Ariel thinks that the way that technology is used by his son broads the gap between father and son, he feels that the global promise of connection in fact disconnects families, that the approximation given by technology creates fictitious relationships. For these reasons Ariel fights against lack of communication by using the book he has created to build a bridge between both generations. In the past story, the Ariel's parents decision to shelter the MIR militants in their house transformed the family in an isolated group from the rest, in that new group human relationships were strongly influenced by the political ideology while Ariel's words (a boy who used to draw and to play guitar) fell like stones on the ground. Ariel could not tell anyone what he was living. Friends and relatives were not allowed to get in the 'security house' he called 'home', the city looked gray and unfriendly and the media was biased or censured by force. Thus art is the only real tool of liberation against the lack of communication (in the present story by reading the graphic novel that Ariel made to his son or by the music drawings in the past.)