I have a bicycle, but it's only drawn. Will I ever have a real one?
I have a bicycle, but it's only drawn. Will I ever have a real one?
Gio lives in a house without windows and doors and walks barefoot on the earth floor. In his home, it’s dark, damp, cold, and echoes with the cries of a hungry child. Everything that Gio doesn't have and dreams about, he draws in his pictures.
Gio: I really want a bicycle! I’ve never had one. So, I drew it. This is me riding it through our Akhshani, waving to everyone I meet. Oh, but you can't go anywhere on a drawn bicycle... But on a real one, I would race with the boys and make a garage for it in the yard, I've already found a place.
– And did you draw a phone too, Gio?
Gio: Let me at least have it on paper, since I don't have a real one. But a phone would be very useful to me. I'm not quiet like my sister Mari. I know she wants pretty dresses but is too shy to say it. Consider that I told you on her behalf. If I had a phone, I would call my friends all the time, and they would call me...
Soon, I'll run out of both my drawing pad and markers, and then I'll stop drawing.
Friends, Gio needs not drawn things, but real ones! Let's make all his drawings come to life with our help!