In 1977, the architect and music composer Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta met, in the Brazilian forests, a unique character. His name was Francisco Luiz Peixoto, he was about one hundred years old, was a shaman, a philosopher. Both became great friends and Mr. Chico was, as Emanuel Pimenta tells us, his first Zen master. The book also has a marvelous photographic essay, with more than two hundred images. It is an amazing true story.