Fuori fuoco

“When war broke out we were all pleased”. Jolanda, also known as Jole, was already working at the spinning-wheel at the age of thirteen during the summer of 1914. It didn’t take her long to understand and suffer for the consequences of a conflict that sent the men away and left the women alone. Separated from her mother, traumatised by the bombings, she and her sister will roam the countryside looking for a grandmother that they have never met before. Through the voice of Jole – a penetrating, vivid first person narrator – their experiences are those of all the women who stay out of the line of fire, far from the front, blurred, almost invisible, while History proceeds, ruthlessly. Thirteen narrated images, like photos missing from a family album, punctuate a narration based on diaries, testimonies, reports and documents.