Azzurro amianto

In the beginning of the 21st century, a town in southern Italy is dozing in an abandoned industrial area. Two women take refuge right there, in search of justice. A committee of bourgeois ladies want to do good, but without getting their hands dirty. A suburban neighborhood, a parish priest and a former trade unionist struggle against the consequences of a contaminated factory, where in the 1980s young workers began to scrape asbestos for the interests of unscrupulous industrialists. In this motionless scenario arrives Beatrice, who fled from that town many years ago. She is imprisoned by guilt for having left her daughter Bianca, who suffers from a developmental disorder, in the care of others. Through helping the two women and a wounded community, Beatrice, without heroism, will gradually find the courage to face and accept a troubled motherhood.With the refined writing of Emilia Bersabea Cirillo, Azzurro amianto transports the reader into a social, political and intimate affair, against the backdrop of a wounded territory, crossed by the desire for redemption of its protagonists and also of the author.