Emilia and the Hat

A red hat pops suddenly into Emilia’s life, and she can’t stop thinking what she should do with it. Keep fruit in it? Hang it in the living room? Use it as a culinary object, or an aesthetic one? Emilia chooses something else. She renovates a store, and sells hats there, special hats that she colors and sews herself, hats that fit in with secrets and dreams. In the beginning, there are no takers but
with time the customers begin to pouring in, and the hats make them smile.

But who is Emilia? We are not told at the beginning of the story, and throughout it she never says anything, but only observes, listens and makes hats. She can read and write, she’s mature, and as we read, a girl who thinks and behaves differently from others emerges from the pages. Emilia does not drift with the current, but rather drives the current herself. She has her own world and her own vision, through which she makes people wishes come true.