Malotempo

Paolino Rasura had a dream: to leave Santafarra to attend the Academy of Fine Arts. Now he is thirty years old, he is no longer Paolino, he has started a family of his own and lives in Palermo, working as a cart painter, feeling that he has wasted his chance. In December 1967, the failed artist returns to his hometown for the funeral of Filippu, the eccentric sculptor who had instilled in little Paolo a love of art. Filippu’s death is an opportunity for Paolo to pick up the pieces of his past life, but all he finds are shards: he feels like a stranger even among his brothers, and Filippu’s works, which once spoke to him, helping him face the world, now speak to a gang of kids led by the combative Francesca who, with the help of Rachel Carson and Federico García Lorca, is working to prevent the expropriation of the Garden and the demolition of the sculptures to build the motorway. After Pelleossa, Veronica Galletta returns to Santafarra and, with the mastery that guides her pen, gives voice to a tormented place that is the source of many of today’s cracks and distortions, giving us back a part of Sicily at the dawn of the 1968 earthquake.