Valeria Parrella recounts her deep and complex bond with Naples, a city that is all about language, identity, and memory. Through Almarina, a Naples that is 'wonderful and terrible' emerges, but also a place of freedom, growth, and hope.

Author Valeria Parrella talks about the connection between her novel Almarina and various locations within Naples: Nisida (a volcanic islet that houses a juvenile detention center) and Bagnoli (a seaside neighborhood of Naples). What emerges is the portrait of an intense and contradictory city, marked by working-class identity, the sea, and the reality of juvenile prison.

Valeria Parrella talks about her intense and contradictory bond with Naples and the neighborhood she lives in. The full-time innovative Donna Assunta school overlooks the sea, but faces Nisida, the juvenile detention center. Naples, she says, is not a city you can just live in and ignore, and has become for her an inexhaustible source of literary inspiration.

Valeria Parrella talks about her relationship with Naples and her way of writing about it, based on direct observation and listening to people, far from the usual stereotypes. Her writing stems from an "intermediate" point of view, close to everyday reality.

Valeria Parrella talks about how light and hope are central elements of her writing, even in the most difficult stories. The journey then continues to Salerno, where a meeting with writer Diego De Silva offers an insight into his career and the themes of his novels, touching on social reality, irony, and human relationships.

Diego De Silva talks about his connection with Salerno and reflects on how contradictions, uneasiness, and complex relationships with one's places of origin fuel writing. Through personal memories and references to Vincenzo Malinconico, a character in one of his books, emerges the portrait of an author who transforms lived experience into storytelling and literature.

In the historic center of Salerno, Diego De Silva revisits childhood memories and recounts how writing and the character of lawyer Malinconico helped him face and overcome a difficult period marked by illness.

Diego De Silva talks about his journey as a writer, explaining how he has tackled themes such as the Camorra and pain with an anti-rhetorical style. He shows how, through irony and humor, it is possible to better understand reality, distance oneself from it, and reflect on the values that truly matter.

After leaving Naples, the journey continues to Caserta, a city suspended between the grandeur of the Royal Palace and the identity of a province that balances tradition and modernity. Here Annalena meets writer and screenwriter Francesco Piccolo, who shares his deep bond with the city where he was born and raised.

Francesco Piccolo tells the story of Caserta through the places of his childhood, weaving together personal memories and reflections on fragility, identity, and the origins of his vocation as a writer. Note that our host, Annalena, talks about moments of negligible happiness and unhappiness. She is also referring to the titles of Piccolo's 2 books, Momenti di trascurabile felicità and Momenti di trascurabile infelicità. There is a film based on both books, whose English title is "Ordinary Happiness."

Rosalba lives in Pontedera and shows us her favorite park. There is a sculpture there that reminds her of a woman-cat.

Rosalba was a French teacher who has been retired for about a a year. She now spends her days writing stories and cultivating her passion for photography.

"Lipstick and Coffee" is a bilingual pop single (Italian and Neapolitan) by Sal Da Vinci, released in June 2024. The song tells, with vivid and poetic images, an intense love story of passion, desire, and jealousy, comparing the relationship to a sweet and bitter contrast like lipstick and coffee.

Cos'è normale (What's normal?) is a song by Danilo Pao and Enrico Sognato, that questions what "normal" means in terms of how people live their lives. It's presented here in a music video where the camera, placed on the dashboard of different cars, captures the faces of the drivers and passengers, some of whom are members of the group Zero Assoluto, Salvatore Gioia, and the composers, who are singing the song.

Samuele Bersani relives the past when he was still a pre-teen, starting to have secret thoughts. The video contains plenty of illustrations of the words he is singing.