“I was barely eleven and the world suddenly started disappearing before my eyes. As a child, I didn't understand it at all, but I believed the doctor that it was a banal inflammation of the eyes. I clung to this belief as long as the fading contrast and brightness of my visual perception would allow, and my confidence in the infallibility of the white-coated authority was only cracked when my mother lost her patience. She took me to another place, where suddenly diagnoses and prognoses were whispered in front of me and hidden in complex names..."

Thus begins an exciting and at the same time very humane reading about the fate of a young girl Marianna, who due to an illness at the age of twenty-two will definitively lose her sight. It is a novel literally written by life itself. The events that enter her life due to the gradual deterioration of her eyesight, the support provided by her devoted mother, the memory of the fateful love of her life - all this is woven into a fascinating narrative about finding the mental strength to cope with fate - and finally becoming not only a recognized sculptor, but above all an amazing human being, living a fulfilled life.