Mia sorella è pazza

Rita Nocenti is crazy. Or so say those who know her and the records of the psychiatric clinic where she is admitted. She has always been strange, now she is catatonic: she doesn’t speak, she moves little, she just smiles. She smiles all the time. The doctors have no idea what the cause of her mysterious illness is, nor do they know what treatment to follow. Her only link with the world is her sister Francesca, who stands by her despite the fact that they have always had a difficult relationship, even before the illness. One day, Francesca cuts herself while peeling an apple and, at the sight of blood, Rita stops smiling: it is from this episode that a chain of events and revelations with unexpected implications begins. But as Francesca says, ‘the symptom is but the summary of a story’: to discover the origin of this nameless evil, it will be necessary to dig deep. The two sisters will have to go back over their experiences in a painful and illuminating series of flashbacks, in search of a common root, of a trauma that – in one fell swoop – has united and separated them forever. In this surprisingly mature debut, Iris Biasio reconstructs the house of cards of a tortuous, intense family history, overflowing with humanity.