"Fireflies" by Lisa Della Dora 

Late spring 2020, lockdown in Italy is at his peak, people are allowed to go out for a maximum radius of 200 meters from their houses, social distancing is starting to really hit everyday life.

Our house is in the countryside, behind our cracked backyard wall we're lucky enough to have a beautiful forest, we're actually kind of used to social distancing, living in the middle of nowhere, but still, this pandemic is giving us a lot of worries.

Then, one evening, I decide to go to breath some fresh air outside, I get to the patio and I stop, Matilde is there, sitting in our garden, surrounded by candle lights. She managed to get some fireflies in a jar and now she's setting them free, and this just makes everything else fade away, something so pure and simple yet so liberating, I think I just found my hope back.