Di che colonia sei?

On the seafront of the Romagna Riviera, the vegetation thickens and the new buildings on the sea leave room for ruins and buildings of the past. 87 yaers old Rosetta, returns to Cattolica to review the place where she spent her troubled childhood. Left in June 1940 for a short vacation wanted by the Duce, following the outbreak of war, she turned for her another 13 thousand children of Italian families moved to Libya, in a forced stay of over five years. In the nearby Colonia Bolognese on the seafront of Rimini, 9 former colony children gather around a table, in the structure now completely abandoned, to remember their holidays: seeing the sea for the first time, eating three times a day, enjoy the first freedom away from home, but also deal with the strict rules. In the dilapidated Varese Colony, in Milano Marittima, surrounded by dense vegetation, an architect plans a futuristic redevelopment, a group of improvised “archaeologists” recovers objects belonging to the history of that place and a photographer documents the disintegration of these
abandoned spaces . But the decadent colony still has a tenant: Josè, for almost twenty years, has built among the ruins of the building his incredible home.