On a gray and crowded city sidewalk, a child discovers a book.
In creating this book, Geraldo Valeri.
Thanks to the power of one book, an entire society is transformed.
The child experiences a moment of true joy, and as if in response to that single blissful moment, people seem to come alive in all the other rooms of the apartment block.
That evening, the child begins to read and is immediately carried beyond the repetitive sameness of an urban skyscape into an untamed natural landscape.
On a gray and crowded city sidewalk, a child discovers a book