Pierpaola Janvier

Vittoria, seventeen, leaves her life in Rome behind when her brother Matteo is enrolled at the Helen Keller High School in Frascati. There, she meets Stefano, the principal who is committed to building an inclusive school. Amid new friendships, first loves, and old wounds, Vittoria is forced to question herself and her own prejudices.

Two families, one Muslim and one Catholic, are urgently called by the director of the nursing home where their parents reside, who have fled together. Two such distant cultures are forced to relate, despite their diverging worlds.

Vittoria, seventeen, leaves her life in Rome behind when her brother Matteo is enrolled at the Helen Keller High School in Frascati. There, she meets Stefano, the principal who is committed to building an inclusive school. Amid new friendships, first loves, and old wounds, Vittoria is forced to question herself and her own prejudices.