Adam is a boy whose hands sometimes touch the sky and at other times his face is plunged into mud. He is confronted with his parents' lie; he will not get the golden foot to kick the world's balls as his father promised, nor will a strong foot grow for him on the tree of feet as his mother told him. He was just that miserable boy who dreamed of changing his bitter reality into a more beautiful one. Fate might be kind to him one day, freeing him from the ridicule of other boys about his disability. But tragic fates trample his dreams in the village of sorrows, his birthplace. He was waiting for the city's sky to open its arms to him, to pierce through the clouds heavy with injustice, to draw his path with hope alongside his childhood friend, Hanna. He crosses the tunnel to find a glimmer of light with George, his companion in joy and tragedy. The journey of human struggle stumbles, colliding with vile souls and monsters that spread everywhere—those souls that want to stifle dreams, assassinate a baby's smile, and kill a mother's smile upon hearing the first cry of life. It is a journey of hope that delves into a human battle, an attempt to carve paths of life through the thorns of a land barren with selfishness, injustice, and oppression, where masks are torn one by one to reveal the fangs of human wolves who delight in drinking the blood of the innocent. Can this battle continue forward, suppress injustice, and spread the humanitarian message that aspires to the sovereignty of justice on Earth? Which will triumph, the smile of love or the bullet of hatred?!

• Author: Hana Obeid
• Publisher: Dar Fadaat
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: Arabic
• Pages: 236