Pudore

Gaia doesn’t want to be herself anymore. She shaves off her hair and starts wearing wigs, she sells her most precious earrings on eBay, she gets rid of her closet and buys a new bed, which she is then unable to assemble. She would like to rebuild herself and the environment in which she lives in the likeness of Veronica: her beloved, magnificent Veronica, who recently broke up with her. Veronica isn’t just the person with whom Gaia is in love, she is also the woman she would like to become – as it happens with one’s first, raging, narcissistic love story.Gaia’s family comes from the solid bourgeoisie of Italians who live in Monaco, which embodies everything that Gaia rejects: humanistic culture as contempt and ostentation, the cult of appearances, the propensity to relegate menial tasks to subordinates. Veronica, on the other hand, is a lively woman, down to earth, extroverted, and a personality as sunny as her homeland, the Salento religion. Gaia’s monologue is at times angry and vengeful, other times masochistic, and sometimes scared and held hostage by a horde of sublime obsessions. She will get to know herself better through her soliloquy, and she will be ready to truly take risks in order to turn into the person she wants to become. She will finally realize that you inevitably have to start a fire if you want to be reborn from your own ashes.