Alma e-Xisto

A schist stone, in a village from the chain of schist villages in Portugal, reflects on its identity; it doesn't believe it's just another stone like the millions that exist, because it has been a mountain, a street, a house, a wall, a castle, and a ruin.
It has been fragmented so many times that each part of it has lived beautiful moments in these villages, making it feel part of something greater.

While in that dilemma, a boy picks up the heart-shaped stone and gives it to a girl. The stone witnesses the years as these children grow into young adults and eventually into elders, who, in the end, treasure the mountain landscape with the stone in their hands.
In that moment, the stone understands that, like all of us, it is not something so simple—we are experiences, moments, we are others, we are mountains, clouds, and rivers.
We are Lousã.