"When you are almost ninety, thinking about the past can be dangerous, because sadness can knock on your back. Even thinking about the future is not easy, when you are closer to sunset ithan to dawn. A happy life means looking to the present. Happy New Year is for girls, enjoy the present for ladies.»

How many have felt the temptation to give up their arms and let go, after great pain? It also happened Licia, on the death of her beloved Aldo, her husband for sixty-two years, four months and two days. The colors faded, the silence invaded the house, the hours began to pass all the same. It was then that her nephew Emanuele invented a "game" to distract her: taking a picture of her every day in colorful clothes and impeccable makeup. And the most important accessory: that smile (perhaps a little toothless) that she had lost. From a small sprout, that love for life that Licia has always brought with her, and the curious and nonconformist spirit that allowed her to face all the turning points of her long life, blossomed again.