Fourteen-year-old Amina sews in a workshop in Bangladesh. She wants a better future, at least for her younger sister. So she secretly sends out a call for help to the world.
Víktor is also fourteen years old, lives in Barcelona, goes to school, is lonely and almost unconsciously calls for help. But when he finds Amina's SOS, he sets himself a task. He will help a stranger who is separated by 8166 kilometers of air distance. An impossible task? Will he overcome the distance, reach the goal?
The young adult novel Without a Barcode is about two worlds that are actually one. It is a novel of helplessness and strength, despair and hope, loss and friendship. Of immense love and empathy.
The novel deservedly received the Ramon Muntaner Award.
Writer Ruth Torma is known for her children's novel Naravnost za nosom (taken from the general page of Založba Zala)