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.
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One of the patients has a curious conversation with his doctor about diet.
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This episode begins with the funeral of a patient, in the hospital chapel.
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Amed gets ready to leave the hospital. Luigi gets his stitches removed and talks to a doctor about what he'll have to do in the future.
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It's time for Amed to leave the hospital, but he's not quite ready. There are various types of goodbyes happening.
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Riccardo, the priest, is having a hard time. His mother is trying to help him in her way. Barbieri keeps bothering Giusi. The patient who seems to think he is a doctor gives Luigi some news.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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).
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As he leaves the hospital with his wife, Luigi talks about how his perspective changed having had an experience such as he did.
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