Marcello's friend Lynsey Gedye from Wellington, New Zealand loves Nontropolis. When Marcello created 650 miniature houses from timber offcuts, he got inspired, and started writing short stories about the imaginary people living in them.

This resulted in Lynsey writing his first book titled 100 Love Stories. These are not stories about romantic love, but about love you come across in daily life. Reading the book is like walking through the streets of Nontropolis, and learning about the lives of the people that live there.

In turn Lynsey's stories inspired Marcello, again to turn 5 of the stories into short films. See below.