Seventeen-year-old Roberto is a student at the Instituto Nacional, one of Chile’s oldest and most prestigious high schools. Amid the strict discipline of school life, he discovers that the greatest lessons aren’t in the classroom—they’re in the books forbidden to him. One afternoon, curiosity drives him to the National Library, chasing a copy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche. But the librarian delivers a shock: students in uniform are forbidden from reading it.

What follows is a tense game of patience, subterfuge, and small victories as Roberto navigates a labyrinth of bureaucracy, censorship, and secret dreams in a country ruled by a rigid dictatorship. Misfiled Dreams is a literary coming-of-age story about the power of ideas, the courage to seek them, and the quiet rebellion of youth.

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