Timos the rat and Horatios the owl are very different, but they are friends. Every night, Horatios visits Timos in the barn where he lives and listens to the stories the rat tells him. But Horatios is growing up, and one night when he doesn't show up as usual, Timos wonders if his friend has forgotten him. Could it be the end of their friendship? Or does Horatios finally have a story of his own to tell?

Illustrated with nostalgic tenderness, the second book in the trilogy talks about the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we tell others, and the magic of friendship.