To grab everything. To rush unstoppable into dreams. To devour the sky. A powerful and generous novel that offers the reader the ancient miracle of a great story, inviting them to get lost in it. For thirteen-year-old Teresa, summers in Spetsiale seem to never end. Endless days with her grandmother reading detective stories and her father, away from the office and his wife, becoming mysterious and alive again, like Apulia, the place where he was born. And suddenly, on a warm evening, she secretly sees them diving into the pool, naked, and these three boys enter her life like a gust of wind. Nikola, Tomazo, and Bern. They will accept her into their group, and for the next twenty years, she will find them again on the neighboring farm, sowing, harvesting, destroying, desperately searching for a fire that will keep them burning. At the center is always Bern, like a magnet that pulls them and pushes them beyond the limits...