Dusil Love

It is the end of the 1980s, a few days after the assassination of Alfred Herrhausen, president of Deutsche Bank. The internet does not yet exist and the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse.In the years to come, other bloody episodes will define the role of the Western European nations on the global chessboard.Zoe, having fled the Albanian communist regime, lands in a Berlin that is struggling to process the fall of the Wall.In the German city, she meets Romeo, an Italian student who has come to Germany to complete his degree thesis.She is a crazed marble: she darts away, gaining momentum and direction with each new collision. She plays her music in clubs and sleeps wherever she finds herself.He, delegitimised by a society that values the individual only as a consumer, has learned to live without expecting anything. He depends on his parents and feels crushed by the weight of everyday decisions.And yet, together, they are the East taking the West by the hand.Their search for a place to grow brings them to Steudten, in Saxony, where they take over the local disused railway station.But to put down roots, Zoe must escape the pinball machine that holds her captive. To do so, she pushes on as far as Athens.In Exarchia, she and Romeo will learn that to truly believe in oneself... it takes two.