The overcrowded bedroom symbolized unity.
The family didn’t have much.
But they learned how to achieve enough with the little they had.
A memory that has been preserved for generations.
Decades later, people who still knew the family were still talking about the same things.
The small room.
The children slept with their heads and feet towards each other.
The enormous cooking pot that always seemed to be running empty.
The clothing was passed down from brother or sister to brother or sister.
The eldest son works with his father.
These details have been preserved because they represented something larger than a single family.
They represented an entire era.
An era in which families survived, not because life was easy, but because people trusted each other.
The « Sardine Room » was in reality never about a small room.
It was about the immense love hidden within it.
In a room of only 3 by 3.6 meters, barely twelve children could physically be seated.
