Fragile Age

There is no age at which we do not experience fear. We are always fragile, whether we are parents or children, and even when we must build something without having any idea where to lay the foundations. Yet there is one precise moment when we are thrown into a world in which we are exposed and naked, so the world must not hurt us.

That is why Lucia, who one night thirty years ago had been saved by chance, watches her daughter's silence with panic. That night at Dente del Lupo everyone was there: the Apennine shepherds, the campsite owners, the hunters, the carabinieri. Everyone, except for three girls, who were no longer…