Giuspe is an orphan affected by ADHD, a behavioral disorder that makes him unable to control his impulses. He has lived in an institution since he was a newborn, and his character was shaped on the streets, exposed to the violence of certain Roman neighborhoods. Marzia, a classmate, is the only one who knows his secret, what he calls the "shell," an imaginary... place where the boy retreats to escape from the world. Aprile is his teacher, a thirty-year-old full of debts who collects wrong or impossible loves. The two become protagonists of a shared adventure when Giuspe learns that the teacher will go on vacation to Ireland. Determined to leave, he organizes a real blackmail to force him to take him along. The boy doesn't reveal it, but his journey has a specific purpose: to find his parents who, he has discovered, might be in Ireland. On the island, the two meet Érin, the keeper of an old lighthouse, who thinks day and night about her husband killed under strange circumstances. She magically speaks with his ghost in a present frozen in memory and nostalgia. Chapter after chapter, to the tune of REM, a pulsating universe emerges of characters yearning for redemption and peace, who one day, as if resurfacing from the hell into which life has made them fall, reopen the doors of their hearts to fragility, truth, and the unpredictability of feelings.Show more