Venice, 1976. A six-year-old boy realises that the palazzo his father is restoring hides a secret. The unusual bond between him and the daughter of the new owners, who have come from London to take possession of the ancient mansion, unveils complicated plots, woven over the centuries by someone from the past still searching for his freedom.

United by their mutual differences, the young protagonists finally bring to light the truth kept inside the palazzo.

Paolo Tomassi was born in Rome in 1970. He graduated in Modern Foreign Languages and Literature after publishing a first work of fiction with a Florentine publisher.

He books include:
Grano della Speranza, L’Autore Libri Firenze 1990;
Marzio Marin, El Vèro e Le Vére, Casa Editrice el squero, 2020;
Il mare dagli occhi, Scatole Parlanti, 2022.