Gilmar didn't ask for one cent. He was just working day and night to be able to pay an urgent examination to his father.
He was 31 and worked as a driver through an app in São Paulo, Brazil.
At that time he had a precise objective: to put together about 1,000 reais, about 170 euros, necessary to pay a biopsy of which his father urgently needed.
According to the story released at the time, the man was facing a serious tumor in the lungs and the examination was to be carried out the next day.
That's why Gilmar was trying to drive as much as possible.
One race after the other.
By day and night.
Then, during one of his travels, the entrepreneur Fritz Paixão got on his car.
It seemed like a race like a lot.
At one point Gilmar sent a voice message to a friend and spoke about the situation he was facing. Fritz accidentally listened to a part of the conversation.
He could have ignored her.
It was a private matter between the driver and someone else.
He asked him what was going on.
Gilmar explained to him that his father needed a biopsy and that he was working as much as possible to collect the necessary money.
He didn't ask for help.
He didn't ask for money.
He simply told him why he was spending so many hours at the wheel.
It was then that Fritz made a decision that Gilmar did not expect.
He offered to pay the exam.
The driver's reaction was immediate: overwhelmed by emotion, it burst into tears.
In a few moments, Gilmar knew that he no longer had to deal with the concern for the cost of that exam, while his family had something much more important to think about.
The story has thrilled thousands of people even for a seemingly secondary detail.
Gilmar wasn't looking for someone to solve the problem instead of him.
He was working to solve it.
Fritz simply found himself in the right place to listen to a story that would normally remain confined to a voice message.
And he decided to intervene.
Not all the people we meet during a day tell us what they are facing.
The driver who takes us to the destination, the person we need a coffee or those who work next to us could be in the middle of the most important battle of his life without knowing anything about it.
That time it was enough for a conversation almost by chance.
A race should have brought a passenger from one point to another of São Paulo.
He ended up taking a huge weight off the shoulders of the man sitting at the wheel.