In Aleppo in the 1960s a bright, light boy was born, in a country scarred by years of upheaval and injustice. Why did his father try to kill him from the day he was born? Was he switched at birth? Or was he the product of a one-night stand with his mother? How could this boy be such a threat to him? Why did his mother have to rescue him over and over from certain death? Why was this bright, light boy meant to live? Imagine this child, endowed with beauty and grace, with innocence and ignorance, roaming the Christian and Muslim neighborhoods of Aleppo. A child with a special gift. A gift so powerful, it made him love people and existence, no matter what cruelty or abuse they threw at him. A gift that he had to learn to master the very hard way.