It was 1946 when Amerigo left his neighborhood in Naples and got on a train. Together with thousands of other Southern children, he will cross the
entire peninsula and spend a few months in a Northern family; an initiative of the Communist Party to rescue the little ones from poverty after the last
conflict. With the astonishment of his seven years and the cunning attitude of a child of the alleys, Amerigo shows us an Italy that is getting up from the war as if we were seeing it for the first time. And he entrusts us with the moving story of a separation. That original pain that cannot be escaped, because there is no other way to grow. (PW)
