In a lost village in a long valley the little boy Karli sits alone in front of a house. He is sad and bored, because day after day no one is playing with him. Suddenly, a voice calls him. It is the small windmill Sophie, standing in a flower pot on the windowsill. Sophie gives him a precious advice which he enthusiastically follows. A new life begins for Karli within hours. And miracles happen in the village.This is the first story of a planned series. The author wants to show – an...

Loreta is a young woman with Swiss and Spanish blood in her veins. Still as a child after the divorce of her parents she went with her mother back to live in Switzerland, where she grew up, reached adolescence and first youth. After a disappointment in love, she decided to travel to Spain to find her father, whom she has not seen for a long time, and with whom she has maintained only sporadic contact through the years. She packed her belongings into her small car and headed for Almeria. Up...

In this selection of short stories, the Swiss author Dill McLain tries to convey to us, how sometimes in most critical moments, we should never stop struggling, but cling to a hope.Through her simple, direct and humorous lyrics; when a great love tells us goodbye, when crises and problems of everyday life overwhelm us, when things seem absolutely lost, suddenly life can take a turn, showing us that, maybe around the next corner, a better future or real love might be waiting for us....

Loreta, una joven por cuyas venas corre sangre suiza y española, siendo aún niña, y tras el divorcio de sus padres, se va a Suiza a vivir con su madre. Allí crece, y le llega la adolescencia y la primera juventud. Tras una decepción amorosa, decide buscar a su padre en España, al que no ve desde hace tiempo, y con el cual ha mantenido a través de los años contactos muy esporádicos. Empaca sus pertenencias, y conduciendo su pequeño coche, se dirige a Almería. Al llegar, no encuentra a su pa...

Luna and Sandro are two children aged 11 and 9 years respectively living in northern Spain, in a dysfunctional home where alcohol and drugs have always been present. The father abandons them, and the mother, a product of her addictions, is unable to care for them.They are taken to a mountain region, in a coastal area of Andalusia. The finca of their maternal grandparents, whom they had never seen before, is located there. They are somewhat surprised by the very different landscape,...