Douro Editions "Through reading, we become absent from ourselves and our own lives." Alphonse Karr

– Yes, you will leave with them, because a young girl of your status, a "Donna Calderaro", does not work and apart from housework with your mother, I have nothing to offer you on our boats. – But Dad, it's a great idea perhaps for Agnese, my brother Agostino's fiancée who accompanies him there in his barracks, but not for me. I don't want to leave my beautiful island of Ustica that I love so much! – You must not question my decisions since I am the head of the family. This is how young Rosalia, at 16, leaves the wonderful island of her childhood. From Ustica she embarks for Palermo, leaves Sicily to reach the north of Italy at the time when it has just formed its unit. She will live an adventure, an uprooting, a tragedy. She will never stop thinking about her former life that she will idealize. Is it for her, a journey of no return? Release: April 1, 2025 Order Press Release