THE DOCTOR WHO NEVER EXISTED: When Listening Becomes a Form of Healing

BOOK ONE - THE DOCTOR WHO NEVER EXISTED Rurópolis had grown so accustomed to losing doctors that it no longer believed any professional would remain in town. Everything changes when Augusto Vidal steps off a bus carrying an old suitcase, a leather briefcase, and a lie that was supposed to last only a few minutes. He is not a doctor. Yet, faced with the townspeople's desperate need, he agrees to play the role he had always dreamed of occupying. The problem is that Augusto knows how to do something many professionals have forgotten: listen. As he earns the town's trust and grows closer to teacher Florença Lima, mysterious envelopes begin revealing his true name and a past he tried to hide. Augusto must now choose between protecting the identity he invented or telling the truth and risking the loss of the first place where he ever truly felt needed. A novel about guilt, belonging, listening, and the possibility of beginning again.