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The digital revolution of the 21st century has almost totally cancelled cursive writing, turning those characters so dear to older generations into incomprehensible hieroglyphics. For this reason the young detective Loreta Assensi is forced to call for help to solve an unusual case of murder. The only clue is a yellowed letter written in cursive hand which the victim, the antique dealer Roberto Trentin, holds tightly closed in his hand. The son of Italian immigrants in Argentina, Roberto Trentin is the unaware victim of an obscure secret. A secret that he does not even imagine, a secret hidden in the folds of the letters his ancestors used to send one another for decades from opposite sides of the ocean. What Loreta Assensi needs is a philographer, a university professor and researcher, who is still able to interpret cursive hand. Together they embark on a journey, not only a geographical but also a temporal one, from the banks of the River Adige in Verona to the shores of the Rio Parana in Argentina. An unusual crime and police story with a noir hue, this tale foresees a world where the past will soon be giving way to new ephemeral ways of communication without paper, without ink.

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