Quel che resta

In Northern Italy, devastated by the Covid emergency, thousands have died. As quarantine robbed victims of a final goodbye from their loved ones, their personal effects, crammed into plastic bags, continued to accumulate in hospital wards. In Parma, a group of citizens, led by Stefano, a young lawyer, decided to return the victims’ belongings to their families. This spontaneous initiative has grown into a movement, the symbolic ritual of restitution helping replace the funerals that could not be held, and allowing families to commemorate the many – too many – lives lost.