In a world devoid of plants and animals Nino, a 13-year-old boy, struggles with himself about taking responsibility for being the grandchild of the person who caused nature’s extinction. His companions tease him, deriding him for his forebears. Nino refuses to listen, until one day he encounters Mother Nature herself. She offers him the wonderful opportunity of meeting his grandfather. Nino thus commences a journey into the past, discovering plants and animals and above all the true identity of his grandfather. In the end Nino is obliged to make a choice: to continue to struggle or…? A journey of initiation and self-discovery twixt realism and fantasy.
