Returns Libriabano - Words of the Author, a review of meetings with writers, journalists, and protagonists of the Italian cultural scene at the Thermal Forum.
Meeting with Matteo Bussola for the presentation of the book "The Light of the Fires in December".
Margherita and Marcello meet on a train. She is fleeing from her family, he is returning to it. Sitting across from each other, in a crowded carriage, among children playing and elderly people eager to chat, the two size each other up. At first, they are cautious; then, almost without realizing it, they find themselves confiding in each other. They talk about relationships, children, dreams and fragilities, about promises kept or forgotten.
Like in an auteur film, in the intimacy of a fixed frame, Matteo Bussola stages an open-hearted dialogue between a woman with a candid and disillusioned gaze and a man who continues to believe in others. Two people with seemingly ordinary lives, familiar enough that they seem like our own. And who, in the parallel reality of the journey, discover an unprecedented, unconfessable part of themselves. An off-season fire that perhaps even destiny will not be able to extinguish.
How would it be Before Dawn if the protagonists, instead of a girl and a boy, were two adults who feel betrayed by the world? It would be The Light of the Fires in December. The story of one of those unexpected openings with which life reminds us that we are still on time.
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