Reason To Believe

There is a hidden protagonist in this story, who is never called by her real name, too evocative, too "e;sputtanato,"e; to use her own language.It is the City, beautiful and violent, very ancient and ruthless, with its stinks and its unforgettable scents, the sweetness of its food and the harshness of everyday life.Most of those who live there are bound as if by a spell to this land in the South of Italy, a "e;malignant land,"e; which sees it as a betrayal when someone moves away from it, materially or ideologically.From one of its poorest neighborhoods, thanks to a play of circumstances, at a certain moment not far from our own days, there emerges a "e;soldier of fortune,"e; who will find himself fighting against his peers, but peers who have chosen nothingness, "e;knights of the deepest nothing."e;He is a young man who, during his military service, is recruited into a Special Service.He is quick-witted, he is left-wing, he has the myths of his generation: the street food of the City, its aristocratic and beautiful women, pop and rock music, social justice—indeed, justice "e;tout court"e;.With these myths and a good dose of irony he carries on his work as a super-cop, at a time of deep crisis of values, with the threat of a great conflict—obviously nuclear—always present.Will he manage to find a reason to believe in his actions , indeed a reason to believe in something different from nothingness?