The house of lost and found

by Martin Widmark · 2018

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Niles lives alone in a big house full of dust and memories of the people he s lost. Then one day, the boy from next door asks Niles to look after his plant. Reluctantly, Niles takes the pot of dirt. Can he remember how to care for something?

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