Cosmic girl
Michael Moran - an Australian; writer, pianist, and traveler, member of the Royal Geographical Society. He lives... in Warsaw - how did it come about? In 1968, he narrowly avoided being forced to participate in the Vietnam War - the Australian government conducted a specific recruitment of "volunteers" - a specially constructed machine for the occasion, the "birthday lottery", targeted birth cohorts required to enlist. Shortly after this drastic experience, Moran decides to head to Europe to visit his uncle Eddie - a retired pianist. He stays on the Old Continent; works as a teacher in London, learns to play the piano, and often meets with his uncle who was living in France at the time. At the end of his life, his uncle insists on Moran promising to travel to Poland and visit all the places associated with Fryderyk Chopin; he claims it will have an impact on the young musician's style of playing. He also asks that his ashes be scattered in Żelazowa Wola after hi...