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One night, Jose Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. He races to the uppermost gallery, and there beneath him on a spotlit stage lies the wounded body of Nelio, a street urchin renowned throughout the city for living on his wits. Gasping, the wounded boy asks to be taken to the roof to breathe the beautiful air fresh off the Indian Ocean. On that theatre roof, his life ebbing away, Nelio begins his story. At the age of five Nelio watched helplessly as his village was burned to the ground and his people were massacred by bandits. He escaped by chance; a man handed him a gun and ordered him to…

One night Jose hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. He races to the theatre's gallery, and there beneath him on a spotlit stage lies the wounded body of Nelio, a street urchin renowned for living on his wits. Gasping, the wounded boy asks to be taken to the roof to breathe the beautiful air fresh off the Indian Ocean. Then he begins to tell Jose his extraordinary story...

A haunting and powerful story about war-torn Africa, a mystical orphan boy, and the power of narrative to give a chaotic world order. In the hot African night a single gunshot cracks the silence. José Antonio traces the sound to the stage of the local theatre company, where he finds Nelio, the young prophetical leader of the city’s street kids, crumpled in blood. Nelio refuses to be taken to the hospital but instead tells Jose his life’s story: how bandits raided his village, his daring escape, and his struggle to survive on the streets. José is irrevocably changed. He becomes the Chronicler of the Winds, revealing Nelios’s magical tale…

At the age of five, Nelio witnessed his village burned to the ground, and the brutal massacre of his people. He escaped by chance but a man handed Nelio a gun and ordered him to shoot another boy. Instead he turned the gun on the bandit, shot and ran. Nelio joined a rough street gang, and began a very different way of life.

"Man kann fliegen, ohne sichtbare Flugel zu haben". Nelio, ein zehnjahriges Strassenkind, erzahlt um sein Leben. Er liegt mit einer. Schusswunde auf dem Dach eines afrikanischen Hauses und weiss, dass er sterben wird, sobald seine Geschichte zu Ende ist.