Director’s note:

The stories of the protagonists lead to the awakening in all of us of the desire to be connected with their past, therefore also with their origins. In the light of the latest violence in Italy and the world, it is essential to ask ourselves who we are and where we come from, only in this way will we second-generation boys finally be able to come out of the shell, coming to introduce ourselves and to express ourselves for what we really are. Precisely for this reason the idea of bringing together all these talents in the sign of art seemed to me to be the only form of resistance possible, seeking an identity that disregards skin color and religious belief. In a world where the distances between cultures tend to widen, where ethnic and religious conflicts worsen, my attempt to show the worlds and lives of these children in a dynamic of daily coexistence, outlining the lives of the marginalized, of the last, of the forgotten, can help us to reach the deep motivations of a conflict strongly ideologized. In this direction the choice to use the verses of the poem -Still I Riseby Maya Angelou moves, to highlight the need for a fight against all forms of racism, ignorance and prejudice.