I found Barbara Constantine, with his book Tom, Tom tiny little man Tom, surprised me as lesson of humanity. And in this book I find the same lesson. What better way to resist when the wrong approach if not when one is twig to come together to better resist becoming a sort of trunk? And tap into the power of solidarity friendship and tenderness that can imagine a future despite the clock whose pendulum may stop at any time! This novel is a true lesson of humanity in a fiction that is a real reflection of reality.