The repression and paranoia of Romania in 1989 is immediate. The official theory of a bear being responsible for a string of brutal murders is laughable, but it represents the unhinged mind of the Dear Leader himself. All your heart goes out to Lia, with her child’s profound sense of right and wrong, as her very life is thrown into danger by proximity to Ceausescu and his would-be assassins.
Lia looks at the drawing again. It can't be done:erasing the title, as Comrade Sava said, will make a mess of the sun. The teacher can't have meant for her to ruin the whole drawing. Lia drops the eraser and picks up a crayon. The fix is to just draw another spaceman in the left-hand corner of the page. It will work, that bit is too empty anyway. He has to be a bit smaller because there isn't much room left in outer space, but Lia tries to make it up to him by colouring his helmet and suit red. And he, too, is smiling at us. Above him, in somewhat cramped letters, she writes "Cosmonaut". There. We now have every type of space traveller.
