Fragili scintille

She is a timid, irritating young woman; he, the Japanese young man who gives her private lessons. Beatrice and Kento, separated by their secrets, will have the strength to face the consequences of their errors, forgive themselves and move forward.

Beatrice Cesari studies Japanese at university. Other people see her as haughty, unreachable and surly. And yet someone has glimpsed her frailty and apparently manages to penetrate the wall around her and see inside her. It is Kento, a young man with a sunny smile and deep, dark eyes: the assistant of the Japanese language lecturer. Beatrice knows that she should keep away from him, but when Kento becomes her Japanese tutor, her private lessons with him force her to be near him. Kento seems to want not just to teach her Japanese but also fill her wounds with gold to heal them and make them glow. For the first time in ages, Beatrice feels something akin to hope, although she knows that there is still a risk she may get lost for ever, because the secrets of her past are crossroads on a way that could lead her to happiness.