Anatomia di un sentimento. Storia privata di un fatto pubblico

Milan, 2017. The city pulses with neon lights, electronic music, and a promise of freedom that twenty-two-year-old Sarah breathes. When she crosses the threshold of a luxury apartment overlooking the Madonnina statue, she does not realize that she is taking a step that will change her life forever. There she meets Alberto, the owner of the apartment, an attractive businessman. A passionate but patient relationship begins between them, an encounter that turns into an all-encompassing bond, a shared madness fueled by emotional dependency, drugs and manipulation.For her, it is the love of a lifetime, almost a spiritual realization, an inevitable destiny. She did not yet have the tools to understand that their souls had met precisely in their weaknesses, in their self-destructive needs, in a fusion that would soon turn into annihilation. Sarah slides into the abyss, a place where there are no boundaries between pleasure and pain, between satisfaction and oppression. Alberto is the sun, and it revolves around him, losing a part of its being every day. She cannot recognize her desires, and she does not know if she ever had any: her only desire has always been hersNot to lose him, not to be abandoned. Then suddenly, the arrest came. A massive media wave swept everything, and she found herself accused in two cases, and the newspapers portrayed her as a silent accomplice, the queen of the night enchanted by luxury. Forced to provide answers to events she never understood, lost in the smoke of addiction. Thus began a slow, painful but necessary journey of healing. She replays the events, discovers the woman she used to be, and learns to recognize her, accept her, and forgive her for what she suffered and what she unintentionally caused. With an insightful and clear look, the writer takes us to...A maze of gray areas, contemplating what it means to lose one's identity, be broken, and then, with difficulty, become whole again.