Gero Mannella is born in the shadow of the Royal Palace of Caserta in the radiant ‘60ies. In the ‘70ies he moves to the sun and begins to play with the words. In the ‘90ies he’s finalist at the Italo Calvino Award. During the award ceremony he sits behind the great philosopher Norberto Bobbio, is impressed by his huge earlobes and tries to measure them with a pen. Unfortunately the pen is lost falling into the philosopher's ear, and he is expelled from the final. The trauma causes him an epithelial dyslexia, from which his novels arise.