A journey of self-discovery, love, and awareness in the shadow of the beautiful italian hills. Can Ir&egrave;ne discover more of herself through Maddalena&#39;s moving story?<br /><br />Ir&egrave;ne, Maddalena, Jonathan, and Marcello are united by their desire to go beyond appearances, beyond the traditional rules that reduce life to the simple and dry quest for survival.<br />A life that consists of little more than a series of mechanical gestures, emotions, and thoughts. Ir&egrave;ne, the star of the story, discovers a new way of life thanks to her encounter with Maddalena, a fairytale writer, who becomes a sort of spiritual guide for her.<br />It will be Maddalena who teaches her the importance of seeing the world through glasses with colored lenses and who teaches her the importance of self-observation in achieving greater awareness and presence. Maddalena will finally take Ir&egrave;ne by the hand in a journey of self-discovery, with the aid of a mysterious manuscript that was left unfinished and hidden in a medieval church in the hills of the Marche.Unfinished because it is waiting for a special person to continue the story that was started many years before.<br /><br />This novel is a love story between four souls that chase each other endlessly and lose themselves only to reunite at a higher level, in a temporal dimension in which the boundaries between the past, present, and future are magically obliterated.