“Dear diary, my heart is in pain. I want it to stop. But it won’t. It never will. Only if it stops beating all together. I am so ashamed.”
Diary entries and old VHS recordings, once mute witnesses of violence, speak out today and contribute to a family kaleidoscope in which the wish for a normal family becomes painfully clear when we take off to our first family holiday.
Emancipation
We Weren’t Given Anything for Free
Annita Malavasi was an Italian partisan during the Second World War and one of the few female commanders in the resistance. She spent over a year in the Apennines, fighting against the German occupation. At the same time, she had to assert herself in the male-dominated Italian society.