Le cose che ci salvano

Gea lives in a block of flats on the Navigli in Milan and never goes beyond the confines of her neighbourhood. She is twenty-seven years old and gets by as a handyperson. She believes in recycling and giving new life to the things she fixes and distributes, along with pills for the spirit – poems, origami – as part of her ‘neighbourhood circular economy’. She lives alone, but has some good friends, such as the 80-year-old pseudo-doorman or the 13-year-old who dreams of becoming a bus driver. None, however, of her age. Because Gea does not find herself in her age. Just as she does not find herself in the world. Maybe because she grew up in the middle of nowhere, with a father obsessed with catastrophes who forced her to always prepare for the worst? We begin to discover her secret thanks to the New World, an old junk shop that is taken over and put up for sale. Gea will embark on a new mission: to save the shop at any cost. Because everything we save ends up saving us in turn, perhaps giving us the courage to carve out our own space in the world.