Il piccolo regno

A tribute to the classics of English literature for youngsters, a story set in that Golden Age which ends where childhood ends.

The English countryside, in the Thirties. For four boys it’s the time of conversations with animals, of scuffles in the village, of the tree-house with its hidden secrets, and of friendship with Ned, a war hero and one of the rare adults who know how to talk to children. One day a sheep falls into a mound of earth, revealing the tomb of an ancient warrior from which the protagonist steals a gold bracelet: the ghost seeks him out, leaving a trail of blood next to his room, taking on the form of a black mastiff. Among the lies and the mysteries of the grown-ups, the brutality of two excessively blonde twins and a tragedy, the Gente Bassa (Low People) are sadly to discover that life is unfair.