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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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