Visions

A story about the owner who pulls down the shop's shutter for the last time and finds out what the key still opens. For those who just lost a business.

A story about the farmer who watched hail take a year's harvest in twenty minutes, and about what the land keeps when the harvest is gone.

A story in dialogue between a 52-year-old seamstress and her daughter, the night she decides to go back to school. For those who think it's too late.

A 2041 story about a Colombian family that loses its village to a flood and climbs the mountain carrying what fits in a backpack and what fits in nothing.

A story in the form of a prayer: an immigrant mother, without her documents in hand, remembers her grandmother who wove counting the threads by heart.

A story about a Brazilian nurse on the night shift in the United Kingdom, a video call with her mother and the bridge we carry inside.

A story about a man who lost almost everything and walks into a simple church to hear stories of ordinary people who came through the impossible.

A story in dialogue, in 2040, between an engineer who doesn't believe and her father who burns incense at an old temple. About a faith that needs no creed.

A 2040 story. A girl who has never lived a minute without sound asks her grandfather what silence is, and he takes her to listen to the sky.

A story: amid two hundred calls a day, a Colombian call center agent sees a bird on the ledge and goes back, for a second, to her grandmother's porch.

A story about a Portuguese watchmaker who, in 1974, repairs a soldier's watch and learns that time isn't measured by the hands of a clock.

A story about a thirty-one-year-old woman who compares herself with everyone and discovers the universe also takes time between seeing and happening.

A story about a Bolivian father in Brazil, the night his daughter is born in a country not yet wholly his, and the reckoning every immigrant father makes.

A 2070 story. A fifty-year-old man opens the messages his father recorded for him and discovers the inheritance wasn't in the will.

A story in seven movements about a man who tried six times, lost six times and, on the seventh, understood what the others had left in his hands.

A story about a girl who, on Sunday mornings in the nineties, watched Senna race on TV and decided to do something that didn't have a name yet.

A fable: in the north of England, a thin, damp-eyed dog follows a woman everywhere, until her grandson asks why it's so hungry.

A story in dialogue, in 2034, between a truck driver afraid of being replaced by a machine and his twelve-year-old son who talks to it every day.

Almost a prayer: in a schist village in Portugal, an eighty-three-year-old widower talks to the pigeons, until the afternoon he walks down the street.

A 2040 story about a young Latin American man in Dubai, among glass towers and unanswered messages, and the desert that teaches him to be with himself.

An 80-year-old Bolivian grandmother who speaks only Quechua, a machine that can't understand her, and the granddaughter who teaches both to listen.

A 2045 story. A young man who grew up talking to machines goes back to the school where he learned to read to ask the question no AI answered.

A story in the form of a letter, written in 2045 by a Generation Alpha woman to her mother, about growing up among machines and what only a mother teaches.

A story in dialogue between a mother and an eight-year-old who asks AI everything, until the night he asks something only she can answer.

A story of one early morning at a wholesale supply center, where a porter sees tons of tomatoes go to waste and, at the same time, hunger.

Almost a prayer by a Colombian grandmother who, in 2040, cooks for her grandchildren and remembers the girl she was in the nineties, with an empty stomach.

A story about a woman waiting for a test result in a hospital corridor, and the nurse who teaches her to wait without being alone.

A story about a Bolivian shopkeeper who stops sleeping after losing his business, and about the night he decides to ask for help.

A story about a ride-hailing driver who works fourteen hours a day and, on a late-night ride, picks up a passenger who shows him the road back.

A story about a financial analyst laid off in Hong Kong in the 2008 crisis, who crosses the harbor by ferry with a cardboard box on her lap.

A story about a Colombian girl in the nineties who discovers capoeira in a square and learns, through the ginga, that whoever stops, falls.

Almost a prayer by a mother evicted with her three children who discovers, among boxes on the sidewalk, what no court order can take.

A story in dialogue, in 2050, between two old men who were business partners, parted in silence and meet again on a garden bench thirty years later.

A story in the form of a letter from a forty-year-old Bolivian woman to the twenty-year-old girl she was, asking for forgiveness and offering it.

An epic story that follows a hydrogen atom from the beginning of the universe to the body of a young man in 2070, who asks what he was born for.

A story about a Brazilian executive in Dubai who, at dawn, on a wooden boat on the creek, sees the woman she could be and doesn't know the way there.