A strange child grows up in a gray country in the North, hiding a secret from everyone: a garden full of songs grows inside him. Life seems dark until the moment he meets a puppet, and then, a new exciting world opens before him, that of the traveler and the trusted companion of trees and wooden souls.
It is the Great War that will split his life in two, and the search for wooden creatures will bring him to the city he dreamed of: Venice. And there, in the first Ghetto of humanity, he tears the veil of the world, encountering his destiny and revealing hidden truths about wooden and human puppets.
He has already begun to save damaged wooden bodies at the otherworldly Hospital for Puppets when his transformation into something he never imagined begins, but which seems to have been there all along. However, in the streets of dark Europe, other human puppets begin to appear.
Somewhere between the fascist tempest, the persecution of the Jews, and the Phoenix Opera, the first and last Tree of Venice, holding a black mandolin made by the hands of Stradivari himself, surrounded by his wooden army, will fight the great battle for Light.
A philosophical fairy tale of magical realism, about war, the inaccessible depth of human nature, strange children, and the omnipotence of music.
