The succession of the seasons, a special way to measure the time of writing, developing the characters that drive the story. Page after page – as well as in the seasons – you too will know the love affairs, stories that are tying in the season of ice and flowers, stories that feed the dissatisfaction and storms, but also the melancholy of the leaves die. Yes. By reading “The briefcase“, also you know the main protagonist of the novel – a mature woman – trying to love the strangeness of an old man (his teacher of Japanese in high school). She meets him in that season of life-threatening any woman 38 years of age.