I gave 100 euros to a young woman who was asking for milk for her baby; a month later I found out who she really was.

-Yeah.

Lucía continued:

—But I hope he remembers what it feels like to need something for an hour and that someone decides that that hour explains his whole life.

Then he left.

The meeting continued.

The Ferrer family didn’t give anything away.

They reviewed the numbers.

Risks.

Contracts.

They finally approved a much smaller amount of funding than Alberto had originally intended, and with strict conditions.

His company survived.

But something more important changed.

He.

Not immediately.

People are not transformed by listening to a speech.

But it started with something simple.

He returned to the hospital a week later.

He looked for Lucia.