Luigi is the protagonist of this series from RAI Fiction and Wildside. He's forty years old with a wife, a little girl, and another child on the way, when he suddenly finds himself having to spend a lot of time in the oncology unit of a hospital. Although La linea Verticale (the vertical line) is a work of fiction, it's based on a real story, and we are able to see, through Luigi's eyes, what daily life in an Italian hospital is like.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Luigi has to listen to an interminable list of possible side effects to the drugs he will be taking. Could it be that he is actually going home?
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Two of the doctors meet up in the hall and get into a spat about which job is more noble, that of an oncologist or that of a surgeon.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Luigi reflects on how so many Italians, though living in a marvelous place, would like to be somewhere else, do something else, etc. But there are exceptions.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Luigi continues reflecting on how his illness changed his life in various ways, not all of them negative. Un passo alla volta (one step at a time).
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
As he leaves the hospital with his wife, Luigi talks about how his perspective changed having had an experience such as he did.
Are you sure you want to delete this comment? You will not be able to recover it.
Spanish
French
German
Chinese
English
English 
Español
Français
Deutsch
Italiano
