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"With young people, we need to counteract the existing violence with a gesture of great meaning", and let them identify with that dreamer who believes things can still be changed.

The message is: in this crazy world, why don't we throw flowers instead of bullets?

The English graffiti artist Banksy has the border between urban art and masterpiece, between the public and the private and between the eternal and the ephemeral.

His creations are more than graffiti or physical work: they are a dialogue of understanding and poster flesh. In the case of this demonstrator, throwing flowers combine the real with the utopian as a "plea for democracy, as an actual assault and often a potent and iconic motif for political and social reflection".

A waitress, Celeste Caeiro, who was returning home loaded with flowers that were to be delivered to the attendees of a banquet to celebrate the first anniversary of the self-service restaurant "Sir" in Braamcamp Street, which was suspended because of the situation, could not give the cigarette that a soldier was asking her from a tank in Rossio Square, just at the beginning of Largo do Carmo, where the tanks of the rebels awaited new orders in a tense wait since early morning. As the young woman was only carrying the bunches of carnations, she gave him one. The soldier put it in his cannon and his comrades repeated the gesture by placing them in their rifles, as a symbol that they did not wish to fire their weapons, spreading the action throughout the city and generating the name with which the revolt would go down in history.

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