Florence Pariente, Foreign Rights Manager "The fineness of the art is perfectly married to the poetry of the words in this delicate book of fold-out papercuts."

July, 1977: in the middle of the night, a storm causes a blackout that plunges the city of New York into darkness.
With just three matches in her pocket, a little girl sets out to find her mother. Three matchs, three luminous moments: a giraffe calf, a saxophonist, the chaos caused by this unusual event, illustrated in a magnificent papercut accordion book.