Di spalle a questo mondo

If it is true that every existence comes into the world to embody a drama, that of Ferdinando Palasciano and his wife Olga Pavlova Vavilova is among the most painful and unyielding: it is the drama of imperfection. Since childhood, Ferdinando hated death to the point of making salvation his obsession as a doctor. But such a great vocation, clashing with the injustices he suffered, could only fail and find a home in madness. Olga, in her childhood in Rostov, had to contend with maternal alienation, the quintessence of history and fragility. The only escape from it is flight, held back by roots hidden under the snow and by lameness, which becomes destiny and communion with imperfection. But can one live one step away from the ideal? Ferdinand, from the darkness of his clouded mind, will continue to save donkeys and puppets, while Olga, despite being healed by science and Ferdinand’s love, will return to limping. Don’t you believe that when we break, it’s forever? The question Olga asks the painter Edoardo Dalbono is a synthesis of irreparability and a fall that remain perennial.