Based on a real scientific fact and inspired by a beloved person of the author, this is a story about the science and poetry of existence; time and possibilities, genetics and gender, love and death, evolution and infinity – concepts often too abstract for the human mind to grasp, often more accessible to youthful imagination; concepts realized in the specific, finite life of a tiny, unusual creature found in a pile of compost, in the middle of a garden somewhere in England. From this unique life emerges a lyrical, universal invitation not to misunderstand diversity as a flaw and to welcome, in this accordion of time and space, diversity as the source of the universe's beauty and adaptability.