Eduardo and Miguel Portnoy are twins. They are 54 years old. They live and work together and have only been apart for ten minutes, the time between the birth of one and the other. Argentine photographer Ignacio Coló first saw them while driving through Buenos Aires. They were identical, wearing the same clothes and walking hand in hand. The scene stopped him in his tracks. He jumped out of the car and ran to look for them, but they were gone. He asked at a kiosk if they had been seen and the owner told him that yes, they came by every afternoon. He left her his card. The next day, he rang his phone: "Hello, I'm Miguel, Eduardo's twin brother..."

“We met for coffee and later I visited them at their home. I wanted to photograph them but I immediately realized that a photo would not be enough, that there was something bigger to explain. I came back one day, and another, and another... like that for almost six years”, says Coló. Eduardo was born like this

Eduardo and Miguel were born on May 1, 1968. “The oldest, Eduardo, is the most responsible, always buttoning his shirt down to the last button. Miguel, more curious and transgressive: it is, he is the one who called me. But the differences even in character are very subtle.” They are single, they have no family or close friends. "They are alone in the world but they have each other, and therein lies the heart of the story that moved me on the street," recalls Coló.

In life we ​​all try to build shelters against loneliness, family, couples, friends, co-workers... They didn't have to go looking for them, they have always had them by their side, even since before they were born." Theirs is a plural life, as the psychoanalyst Susana Kuras Mauer points out in a brief essay included in the book, in which the twin alliance has saved their lives. “Vulnerated by a certain maturational fragility and a state of family orphanhood, they sealed a pact of unconditional fidelity among themselves.”

Miguel and Eduardo live in an apartment in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Chacaritas and share a room, as they have always done. They have their names inscribed on silver pendants, they have worn the same clothes for thirty years, they work as clerks in a factory and every Friday, when the Sabbath begins, they dress in suits and bow ties and put on a bow tie. That's how the photographer found them the first day he went to visit them, sitting on a ratty green velvet sofa. Sometimes Coló invited them to look at the photographs in the family album, but not even they could recognize each other. "I think it's Miguel, I'm not sure," writes Eduardo about the image of a teenager on vacation at the beach.

In the book, which can be read from both sides and has been designed by Ricardo Báez, Coló recognizes each one of their individuality, giving each one their own cover, their own space inside, functioning as a mirror that reflects the one in the other until they converge in the central pages. “They liked to recognize each other separately and also together. They always trusted that the book would happen”, concludes Coló.