Terrain Vague, Paperback Book, By: Sandro Veronesi

Italy, late 1960s. Two different but parallel worlds face each other. On the one hand, the Chantier, a shabby neighborhood in the lowlands, where the inhabitants, left behind, somehow survive on the fringes of the economic boom. On the other side of the path, the foundlings of the Cherubim orphanage, placed under the authority of Father Spartacus, a former fundamentalist missionary who wishes to erect, to the glory of the Blessed Virgin, a sanctuary made of gears and neon lights, thanks to the loot of a repentant little thug.