Io come te

Finding a man asleep in the park, sprinkling him with gasoline and setting him on fire seems an exciting way to end the evening for a group of young thugs; but there is another boy, Luca, who is not part of the pack and who watched the scene in horror, without daring to intervene. The sense of guilt gives him no rest: he goes to see the man in the hospital and finds out that he is a Sinhalese named Rajiva, and sells roses on street corners; now that he is immobilized in bed, in serious condition, his family is condemned to hunger. Luca makes a bold decision: he will go and sell the roses in place of Rajiva, disguised as an immigrant. It is the beginning of an unsettling adventure that forces him to abandon his habits as a boy of a good family to see the world on the other side, the one of the least, of the excluded, experiencing on his own skin humiliations, intolerance and racism. Little by little, while his friendship with Rajiva deepens, Luca learns to feel that bond of solidarity and mutual belonging that binds all beings together and to which we give the name of \’compassion\’.