“The public square belongs to the people just as the sky belongs to the condor.” This famous verse by Castro Alves can be seen as a symbol of the work of a writer who used words to fight for a more just world.
Here readers will learn about the key moments of Alves’ short life and see how great the distance is between the poetry of the sky and historical reality. Readers will follow the development of the friendship between Castro Alves and Tia o, a slave with no “right to the public square,” aware that the path to freedom is not paved with verses alone.
