. الإيطالية 2014

Federico is seventeen years old and the heart full of questions to which life has not yet responded. The school is over, the summer opens up in front of him like his dazzling and mysterious city, Palermo. While preparing to leave for a study holiday in Oxford, Federico meets "3P", the religion teacher: they call him that because his name is Padre Pino Puglisi, and he does not take it, he smiles. 3P launches the invitation to the boy to give him a hand with the children of his neighborhood, before departure. When Federico crosses the level crossing that separates Brancaccio from the rest of the city, he still does not know that his new life begins at that precise moment. In the evening he returns home without a bike, with a split lip and the sensation of having discovered a totally foreign reality that is closely related to him. And the entanglement of the alleys controlled by men who bear nicknames like the Hunter, 'u Turco, Mother Nature, for whom the only commandment to be respected is that dictated by Cosa Nostra. But there are also roads inhabited by Francesco, Maria, Dario, Serena, Totò and many others who do not give up hope for a different life ... With the emotion of the witness and the power of the writer, Alessandro D'Avenia tells a long story summer in which everything seems still and yet everything is changing, and gives life to an extraordinary man, who in these pages dialogs with us with his voice quiet and never surrendered, with that smile that did not even turn off in front of his killer . for which the only commandment to be respected is the one dictated by Cosa N.