Rose Aste

Anna runs a farm in Sardinia. At night she lets go in sensual dances in the village bar and indulges in short-lived adventures. Until one day, the construction of a mega-resort on her land forces her to engage in the biggest battle of her life.

Anita is sixteen and she’s facing a difficult situation: her mother died of leukemia and now Jacopo, her father, is also sick: his need for a bone-marrow transplant is increasingly urgent, but the average waiting period for a donor is many months. Anita isn’t compatible, and neither is Tonino, her grandfather shepherd who lives in the nearby tableland, close to a military base which affect the area since the Sixties. There is uncle Gaetano: being Jacopo’s brother the probability that he is compatible is higher, but Gaetano is a hothead and he and Jacopo haven’t had any relationship at all: an old grudge, which they don’t want to forget, is keeping them apart.

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The story of the kidnapping of young Farouk Kassam, which took place on the Costa Smeralda on January 15, 1992. A foreign family, long-established on the island—a father, a mother, and two children—lived what might have seemed like a paradise on earth, until one day, violence erupted, changing their lives forever. Seven-year-old Farouk was abducted from his home by a group of criminals, right before the horrified and helpless eyes of his parents and little sister. Thus began a nightmare that would last 177 days, holding all of Italy in suspense—a historic event that would even go so far as to put the State itself under immense strain. Faced with a harrowing ordeal like the kidnapping of a child, the individuals involved discovered within themselves resources, limitations, emotions, and instincts they never knew they possessed—while their closest bonds and firmest certainties were put to the ultimate test.

The story of the kidnapping of young Farouk Kassam, which took place on the Costa Smeralda on January 15, 1992. A foreign family, long-established on the island—a father, a mother, and two children—lived what might have seemed like a paradise on earth, until one day, violence erupted, changing their lives forever. Seven-year-old Farouk was abducted from his home by a group of criminals, right before the horrified and helpless eyes of his parents and little sister. Thus began a nightmare that would last 177 days, holding all of Italy in suspense—a historic event that would even go so far as to put the State itself under immense strain. Faced with a harrowing ordeal like the kidnapping of a child, the individuals involved discovered within themselves resources, limitations, emotions, and instincts they never knew they possessed—while their closest bonds and firmest certainties were put to the ultimate test.