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."

A brief portrait of Fabiola Gianotti and the historic discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN, a fundamental particle for understanding the origin of matter and the universe.

Fabiola Gianotti retraces her childhood among nature, family and music: the mountain walks with her geologist father, her mother's love for Sicily and the piano, initially hated but fundamental for learning rigor and creativity. An intimate account that shows how science, art and culture have contributed to shaping the physicist she is today.

In this part, Fabiola Gianotti retraces a moment from her childhood when she discovers the world of entertainment between singing festivals and voice acting. She thus learns discipline and commits herself with passion without neglecting school.

A dive into memories of school years, between strikes, private schools, years of lead and friendships that left their mark. Between graduation grades, ski weeks, memorable quarrels and yellowed photos, the portrait of a group of very different girls takes shape, united by strong bonds, heated confrontations and that continuous need to prove something, especially to themselves.

Fabiola Gianotti here tells the story of how her passion for physics was born: from the influence of a great teacher and from reading Marie Curie's biography, to choosing physics as a fundamental discipline and arriving at CERN, experienced as an extraordinary place for scientific research.

Fabiola Gianotti describes CERN as a place of encounter, growth and international cooperation; a young and multicultural environment where science is experienced in a democratic way. The archival images celebrate the original spirit of CERN: an extraordinary adventure.

In the video Renzo Piano and Fabiola tell about CERN as a symbol of the cultural and scientific rebirth of the post-war period. Through personal memories and everyday dialogues, CERN emerges as a place of human and international encounter, founded on curiosity, peaceful collaboration and love for knowledge.