Albania casa mia

February 25, 1991: in Albania in those years there was a state in which the communist regime had collapsed and the discontent of the people resulted in demonstrations, the destruction of dictatorial symbols and mass exoduses, after forty-five years of limitations and controls, the first one of Brindisi. Just in Brindisi, the thirty-year-old Alexander Toto lands, escaped from Vlora aboard the fishing boat Miredita ("Good morning" in Albanian), accompanied by a child of only 6 months, Aleksandros Memetaj. Aleksandros recounts his Italian experiences, as an Italian citizen among Italians, as a child among children, but always as different among equals. Episodes of racism and bullying, in fact, entirely accompany his growth and his settling in Fiesso D'Artico, a small town of seven thousand souls between Padua and Venice. Telling the story of two initially distinct characters, Alexander and Aleksandros, father and son, Albania my home is the narration of a universal story punctuated by the economic efforts for departure, the difficulties and fear of the journey, the humiliations and tiredness at arrival suffered by both protagonists, who love their land but at the same time hate it and for this reason place their hopes in the new homeland, not without suffering the strong feeling of distance.