ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by  her sister  on the bank, and of  having nothing to do : once or twice she  ad peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had  o pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations ?”

Akim is a foreign child who doesn't speak our language. The album unfolds in a few episodes, almost a minimal story, the time that elapses between the disorientation of the first day of school and the moment when the little girl with cornflower eyes finds a playful way to give Akim the words he lacks.

In the rewriting of this fairy tale of European tradition, the strong colours of the Baroque version of Cunto de li cunti by Basile, the romantic elements of the Grimm brothers, the Anglo-Saxon elegance of the Pre-Raphaelites and certain Gothic suggestions at Tim Burton are mixed.

Children fascinate us, because they are like thoughts, clear, confused, light, deep, true. Children force us to think to be able to understand them. These are the most beautiful thoughts we can have: the most human, because they represent the emotional experience on which life is founded, being in the world and part of the world.