A Scratch on the Heart

Stefano is a photographer who has learned to observe the world through a lens. On La Gomera he meets Martina and Giorgia, a couple of women searching for something no label yet knows how to name: a family. From that encounter on, his life is never quite the same again.A journey between Rome, Zaragoza, Fuerteventura, and the Dominican Republic becomes the occasion to cross paths with people who will transform the way he lives, loves, and leaves his mark. Martina, Giorgia, Noah, Penélope, and many others will teach him that true wealth doesn't lie in what we possess, but in what we leave behind in others.A Scratch on the Heart is an intense novel that weaves together friendship, photography, solidarity, travel, and inner searching. A story that reminds us that every day we're entrusted with 86,400 seconds.It's up to us to decide how to spend them.