Leo is a boy of sixteen,
he spends his quiet life and carefree, trying to avoid, whenever I knock on his
door, the white that frightens him: silence, reflection, empty. Plays football,
plays guitar and likes to turn on a motorbike. A bullet in the head fixed: the
beautiful red-haired girl he sees every day in front of the school, Beatrice.
Everything runs
smoothly, until in his life bursts the young substitute of History and
Philosophy, by definition "a concentration of cosmic bad luck": he is
different from other teachers. To him, when he speaks, his eyes sparkle, and he
speaks of dreams, projects. Leo then decides to get involved, to seek his
dreams and pursue them. He sees one already, Beatrice.
But get in the game
means that not everything goes according to plan and this will involve falls
and bad blows: and Beatrice has cancer. The world falls down on me, and the
beautiful words of Professor mean nothing for him.
The truth however is
that, Leo teaches me with generosity, anger and with the ability to love, is
that only when we are beaten you really grow. It's just in front of the pain
that Leo becomes a man.
This book is that
interesting to read, because it speaks about teenagers and in them you can see
yourself.
