Born in Santiago de Chile in 1974. He spent his childhood in the countryside, in the town of Malloco, exactly 29 kilometres from Santiago, among animals, fruit trees and imaginary friends. He was a lonely child, though he hardly realised it.

Nasceu em Santiago do Chile, em 1974. Passou sua infância no campo, na cidade de Malloco, a exatos 29 quilômetros de Santiago, entre animais, árvores frutíferas e amigos imaginários. Foi uma criança solitária, mas quase sem se dar conta.

Francesco Tonucci is a researcher at the Institute for Cognition Science and Technology of the Italian National Center for Research (CNR) in Rome. His professional activity has been aimed at studying the thinking and behaviour of children, in family, school and city environments.

Born near Milan in 1990, Francesca Dell’Orto studied set-design and costume at the Academy of Fine Arts, Brera (Milan).