Septiembre negro

Summer of 1972. The small coastal town of Fiumetto vibrates with the momentum of the so-called Italian economic miracle. The holidays seem endless, and the beaches are filled with families. For young Gigio Bellandi, the world is still a warm place, full of certainties. During those luminous days, he will discover the electrifying magic of music, the pleasure of reading, and what makes him special: an obsession with language and words. But as a precocious sensitivity awakens within him, everything around him will begin to take on new and uncertain contours. Gigio's story is also the story of those around him. His parents, mythical and contradictory figures —his father, charming and charismatic but not without his weaknesses; his mother, who hides a volcanic will— his brilliant younger sister Gilda, his uncle Giotti —a silent guide toward a freedom he is only beginning to glimpse— and, above all, Astel Raimondi, the girl with onyx-black braids whose presence will be enough to change everything. With her, Gigio will experience the awakening of love. But amidst the summer's effervescence, the murmur of the sea, and the memories of childhood, something breaks. The murder of the child Ermanno Lavorini, the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics by the Black September group, and the latent threat of a new kind of violence herald a reality where there is no longer room for innocence. Decades later, Gigio will try to piece together that foundational summer and construct an intimate narrative about what can never be recovered once we grow up.