Lena had never taken a picture with her computer before. She knew phones had cameras—hers had three—but her laptop? That gray, sticker-covered machine was for emails and spreadsheets, not photography.

“Okay,” she whispered. “How to take a picture on a computer.”

She clicked the Start menu and typed “Camera.” Up popped an app with a little lens icon. She opened it.

But her grandmother’s birthday was in an hour, and the family video call was about to start. “I want a real photo of you, not just a frozen face on a screen,” Grandma had said.