Karl the Cat is persistent. Since his first attempt to change the world failed, he opens a wordshop: a shop where he does not sell, but offers words to end sadness. Under the white magnolia tree Karl, equipped with his flame red notebook, receives the girl Rosa Luxemburg, sad about the trees stuck to the earth. Herbert Marcuse, a timid boy, reveals the poetic tempest that is stirring him up: he wanted to be a cloud… he wanted to be a cloud some days.
Other melancholic children visit Karl’s shop to search for something to lighten up their dreams: the girl Amália (Rodrigues), the boy Vladimir. The girl Matilde Rosa Araújo convinces the cat of the possibility to invent a vaccine against sadness. But afterwards she withdraws. It had just been a metaphor since “melancholy, sadness and longing do not make part of the list of epidemics”.
The Wordshop of Karl the Cat is the second story of Karl the Cat and his owner, with whom he shares his dreams, his troubles, and sometimes his happy moments and improbable victories over prejudice.
 
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