Where the Crickets Sing

As a baby, Formiga was left in a basket on the steps of the house at Herdade do Lago.

The mystery of his arrival is just one more in the long history of the estate and the many generations of the Vaz family, haunted by legends and curses: an inexhaustible source of fascinating mysteries for the daydreaming boy's imagination.

Dazzled by the life of the family he clumsily idolizes, Formiga runs and climbs trees, shrinks himself, makes himself invisible, and invents all sorts of things to eavesdrop on conversations and discover yet another secret.

But the last secret he discovers proves too big for the well-intentioned curiosity of a child, and a mistake of his own ends up destroying the only world he knows and bringing his childhood to an end.

More than twenty years later, Formiga returns to Herdade do Lago and writes to an invisible reader, remembering everything that was and everything that should never have been. A sweet story told in the voice of an adult speaking for the child he once was.