Fuocoammare plot
"More than 17,000 people were reported to have died trying to cross the Mediterranean in the last 15 years..."
Samuele, 12 years old, lives on an island in the Mediterranean Sea. Like all boys his age, he wants to have fun, climb the rocks and hang out in the harbor. But his island is not like the other islands. It is Lampedusa, which has become the European destination for the men, women and children who cross the Mediterranean in boats that are far too small and meager. These people are looking for peace, freedom or just happiness, but often it is their bodies that are fished out of the sea. Every day the islanders witness one of the greatest human tragedies of our time.