Viale dei silenzi

An investigation across the territories of memory. The search of a wandering novelist (Roberto, whose surname is never revealed) for his father, mysteriously disappeared four years before. A journey from Warsaw to Berlin and then Ireland, during which the memory of Tuscany emerges from a background of painful experiences, along with secrets that still need exploring. An enigmatic encounter with a muse-woman from afar (a journalist from County Donegal, Erin Sheridan), who is supposed to reveal hidden aspects of the truth, triggering a harsh mental comparison between the Italy and Ireland of long ago and what has remained of them. A visceral novel, probing the creative torment of a rootless and humanly unaccomplished writer: the answer to his questions will only come from following through an itinerary suspended over the spectre of a lacerated Europe, where whatever point of reference seems to have crumbled, and only the perspective of a hoped-for family redemption appears as a desirable purpose to fight for.