The station
by Jacopo De Michelis
Milan, April 2003. Riccardo Mezzanotte is a young police inspector who has just joined the Central Station Railway Police Section. He has an innate propensity for getting into trouble and begins investigating a case that doesn’t seem to interest anyone: someone is scattering horribly mutilated animal carcasses around the station.
Laura Cordero is a twenty-year-old girl, beautiful and from a good family, who hides a secret. She often calls it “the gift” but considers it more of a curse that she can’t talk about. She collaborates as a volunteer in a center for the marginalized that is located in the Central Station and also tries to solve a mystery: she wants to find two children whom she has seen several times wandering around the station at dusk, alone.
The station, powerful as a fortress, solemn as a mausoleum, enigmatic as an Egyptian pyramid, seems to harbor many more mysteries: among the painful folds of its history, behind its sumptuous columns and, above all, in its underground labyrinths, much of it in disused, where normally not even the police dare to venture, the destinies of Riccardo and Laura will cross and together they will find the resolution to the mysteries that both try to solve.
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