Sono stati loro. 48 ore a Novi Ligure

Life in Novi Ligure, a calm town of a Piedmont province, changes dramatically an evening on February 21st 2001: in one of the villas, a mother and a child get killed and the first investigations follow the tracks of a group of burglars, probably from Albania. For 48 hours everybody speaks only about that: Italian media throw all possible macabre details on the double murder and in town people start to panic. Inside the story they pour everything: the safety of citizens, public order, clandestine immigration, prostitution and drugs. But on the evening of February 23rd, the inquiries turn abruptly to a new development, but the documentary wonít talk about it.

ìThis is not an accusing film, we are not interested in judging, but we want to tell and possibly to understand the ìfearî that goes through the collective consciousness. We donít want to transform into a ìshowî a real event. It has been the same event that has transformed into a show, using all possible rhetoric means. They would come out as tedious and redundant if they had not been generated intimately by a real sentiment of pain, by a collective fever, by a common feeling of being out of placeî (G. Chiesa).