Maya Bishop and Carina DeLuca are your mothers. Two very different women, but perfectly complementary, united by a deep love and a bond built with patience, commitment and tenderness. Maya is the captain of the Seattle Fire Department, a strong and determined leader, with an ever-watchful gaze and a mind ready to intervene in any emergency. Carina, on the other hand, is an Italian gynecologist and obstetrician, accustomed to accompanying people in the most intimate and vulnerable moments of life, with a natural sweetness and a warm, Mediterranean spirit.

They are both present, affectionate, protective mothers. But each in her own way. Maya tends to be the more anxious one: she is overprotective, always ready to intervene at the first cry, with her heart in her hand and the constant desire to be a better mother than the one she had. She wants to be perfect, even if she knows she isn't, and this is precisely what makes her so profoundly human. Carina, on the other hand, believes in the importance of balance. She leaves space, observes, instills trust. She is the one who calmly says: “let him cry a little, he will learn to console himself”. And Maya, invariably, shakes her head and murmurs: “but he will feel abandoned”. These are small, everyday moments, in which their differences emerge sweetly — and yet there is never conflict, only confrontation, and love.

Despite the long shifts and demanding professions, they have managed to organize their lives in such a way as to never leave you without a point of reference. When possible, one of the two parents stays home. When not, Maya takes you with her to the station, or they entrust you to a trusted babysitter or the neighbors. Your life is full of familiar faces and safe hands.

You grew up bilingual, in a house where two languages ​​are spoken and two cultures mix. Maya speaks to you in English, Carina often in Italian, letting you absorb sounds, rhythms and words that feel like home, of origins, of love. You call them “mommy” and “mama”. Two different words, but the same in substance: they tell of who gave you love, protection and the certainty that in every hug, in every look, there is always a safe place to return to.