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The king and the queen of Fenarinaasa are chatting in the main living room.
The king is concerned. He is waiting for the jewels of the crown to shine
again. Meanwhile, in the Earth, the parents of Momo are chatting about
her. They say that Momo is busy studying because tomorrow she will have
an exam. In their room, Momo is confused. She doesn't understand anything
and she wonders why children have to study those things so complicated.
Their friends try to cheer her up, but they end fighting each other. Momo
calms them and she decides to use her magic to learn quickly, but she fails.
Her magic only seems work when she transform herself. She says that she
has had enough for today and goes to sleep.
The next morning, during the exam, Momo cannot solve it:
-Ah... even when I'm trying, I don't understand anything... if I get a
zero it will simply be because it has to be that way! In Fenarinaasa, the
king listens that:
-oh, oh, oh, I can hardly believe she is my daughter, a girl of violent
decisions!
Since she has decided not to try to solve the exam, Momo is bored and then
she sees a boy looking at the sky. She asks him what he is watching at,
but the teacher discovers them and she sends them out of the classroom.
Momo keeps making questions to the boy, and he seems to be bothered with
this. The teacher hears their talking and sends them back to the classroom,
each one in a corner of the classroom so that they don't speak. The boy
makes faces to Momo, but she answers him with a friendly greeting.
At the time of
the lunch, Momo sees the boy eating alone. Her friends tell her to ignore
him, that he likes to be alone. Momo decides to invite him to join them,
but he rejects the invitation. Other day, in the recess, Momo invites him
to play with them, but he refuses the invitation saying that he doesn't
have time to waste it. The friends of Momo explain that Ken's father is
abroad and his mom arrives late at home everyday, so he has to do the housekeeping
alone.
Momo decides to visit Ken, but he closes the door in her face. One week
later, Ken goes to the veterinary clinic of Momo, requesting help because
his blue bird is sick. She asks him if his bird is the blue bird that gives
happiness from the famous tale and he nods. The dad of Momo is not home
because he went to the zoo, so she assists him. After assisting the bird,
she asks again if it's really the blue bird of the tale and he says that
it is for him, although for everyone it's just a simple bird. Momo says
that if he believes that, then it's okay with her. Ken apologizes for his
previous behavior and he invites her to his house. Later, in the house
of Ken, he shows his dad's collection. He is an anthropologist. Momo is
suddenly impressed when she looks at a map in the wall. At the same time,
the king of Fenarinaasa, who is always screening Momo's activities from
his palace in Fenarinaasa, looks at the map and says:
- But what's happening? what is the map of my country doing in that place?
and they hung it in the wrong position! 
Ken explains
to Momo:
- This is a map of Fenarinaasa. It is a country that supposedly existed
a long time ago.
- But where did they find it?
- My father found it in some ruins in the India. A long time ago Fenarinaasa
was the land of the dreams and nobody could ever visit it. They say that
it disappeared into the sky one day. Its disappearance happened one day
in the morning, with the dawn.
- That's true, I am not surprised by that boy - says the king of Fenarinaasa.
The king remembers
the events of that day. That morning he woke up to make a journey in his
kingdom mounted in a carriage thrown by animals. For a change, he decided
to open the land of the dreams to the people of the Earth. He pressed a
button of the main entrance and a rainbow-like gate allowed access to the
land. Then the king announced to the wind that everyone was invited to
enter, but there wasn't anybody, only a dense fog. The king walked into
the fog and then he suddenly fell into the void. In his fall, he could
grab from a tree. Then he realized that he had fell from the edge of Fenarinaasa
and that his land was going away from the Earth. The king rushed back to
the castle, where a magic mirrow explained what happened: while Fenarinaasa
went into hibernation for 1000 years, humans forgot about their dreams
and hopes and Fenarinaasa became more and more distant from the Earth.
The only solution is that a direct descendant from the king should be sent
to the Earth to help the people to fulfill their dreams and hopes. For
every 4 humans that receive this help, the crown in the center of the hall
of the castle in Fenarinaasa will have a gem. Fenarinaasa will return to
the Earth once the crown is full of gems. That's it, 10 gems plus a bigger
one in the center. The king commends this mission to his daughter Momo.
He also assigns three assistants to help her. It seems they were the only
ones awake at that time of the morning.
In the Earth, Ken shows his room to Momo. She is surprised with the great
amount of toys that Ken owns. He says that they are his friends and that
they play with him in his dreams.
One week later,
there is a fire in the building where Ken lives. He tries hopelessly to
enter to save his friends, but the firemen say that there is no one inside
and forbid him to enter. Kene manages to elude them to enter into the building.
Momo intervenes to help him becoming a fireman: "The power of my diamond
goes in my help, a fireman trained I want to become without a doubt." 
Momo enters to the building in flames and she realizes that it is too late
to save the toys one by one, so she uses her magic to make them have life
so that they can save themselves. However, Ken lies in the floor, he has
fainted because of the smoke. The toys, instead of getting out, prefer
to sacrifice themselves covering the body of Ken so that the fire don't
burn their friend. Momo saves Ken, but the toys couldn't be rescued. In
Fenarinaasa, the crown shines spectacularly: the first jewel appears because
Momo has helped four humans.
Later, Momo and
Ken are talking in a bridge. He tells her that his toys gave their life
to save his and that now they should be in Fenarinaasa. Momo agrees with
him.
Notes of the episode
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The blue bird that brings happiness, is a reference to the work of
Maurice Maeterlinck "L'Oiseau bleu" (The blue bird), written in 1909
and that has become a classic for children.
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), born in Ghent, Belgium. He is known
principally for his plays, for which he received the 1911 Nobel Prize.
His early plays are marked by an attitude of profound melancholy and
pessimism in the face of evil and death; in his later plays this attitude
gives way to a belief in the redeeming power of love and in the reality
of human happiness. |
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