On August 26, 2006 Elena arrived in Italy. The daughter, with her. Not as illegal, but as a European citizen. So many hopes. And the same responsibility: a mortgage to pay, to attend to a disabled husband, medicines be bought and € 120 per month disability pension as aid. Shy and reserved. "In Naples, it was not difficult to find work. I did the caregiver for three years, but always in black and nobody has ever put in order. They told me to wait because sooner or later I would have a regular contract, but this has never happened. " Stove continuous broken promises, Elena climbs on the first train to Padua, trusting an employment agency Romania who offered her a job as a caregiver. "Your teeth are a problem. Tanned so no one will take you to work "the answer that is given upon arrival.
yet to make the caregiver requirements should be far more important than a teeth sparkling model of toothpaste advertising AZ.
more so Elena is a woman experienced, strong, capable, willing, sensitive and above all ... with a big smile!
Thus began their life on the streets.
spend the day desperately searching for a job, "because a man is not a man if he does nothing all day, if it engages in something useful. People looked at me. But he looked at me strangely. Or maybe I was a strange feeling, to feel weighed on me all the looks that put me in awe, that seemed almost being completely naked. "
"If I was afraid? Yes, always. Not so much for me as for my daughter, I did not like how you look at soup kitchens, I did not like that bother her and I felt responsible for having dragged into this hellhole. "
a month to sleep stretched out on the bench, often cold or the rain that never dries out, then passed to Torresino. In his simplicity and humility, Elena tells us that, apart from some discussion with his roommates, Asylum Night is not so bad. "It only takes a little 'more than discipline." And discipline is a concept that is very expensive. "So the world works, with the discipline, by teaching the rules and with the commitment to enforce them." Between the lines we read clearly from the past regime of town, where everything has an order and trouble to bring it down! But we love this character, perhaps because it can shape it with a disarming sweetness. There's a moment of silence. Indeed, there are many. But silence is not the puzzles. "E ' street life that makes you so. "
are the 23, the lights go out in the structure. For a few minutes my thoughts go to Helen, his eyes fierce, courageous, and yet crossed by a great melancholy and sadness. There are no certainties for her, or projects, or ideas. Doubts have taken over. But there is one thing that Elena still has not lost: his dignity as a human being, in person, but especially women.
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