Yuri Gamberoni – illustratör

Jorge, the protagonist of this story, is born in a very poor favela in Rio and is forced to survive by a thousand tricks. But he is a clever child and learns a thousand tricks from the street. And so, thanks to an encounter with a cunning magpie thief, he specializes in small thefts and finds a real treasure. But Jorge is not satisfied and so he enters the drug trade, becoming a "nino" and then a skilled dealer and a feared international trafficker, known to people and police by his nickname, El Urracaõ. But that is a ruthless world and to escape the killers of rival groups Jorge leaves and takes refuge in Switzerland, in Locarno, a seductive and deceptive Paradise where the plots and affairs of greedy bankers, unscrupulous financiers, new and old underworld bosses intertwine. Here he does business in the world of nightclubs and prostitution, finds love, for the beautiful Sharon, and soon comes into contact with increasingly mysterious characters, linked to the mafia, who propose a lucrative and easy deal to him, which slowly reveals itself to be a deception with incredible consequences, where there is no single truth and where all the protagonists seem to play a personal game.