“Where is my home? In Italy, where I’ve lived since I was born or in that distant land I’ve never seen where my parents come from?” These are the words of Said, an exotic name for a stubborn 26-year-old who speaks Tuscan Italian and was born in Florence of Algerian parents.
When his father suddenly loses his job, Said will be denied permission to remain in Italy and together with his father and brother will be forced to “go home to” Algeria, a place he’d never seen. His combative nature spurs him to appeal to lawyers and the press in an attempt to attract attention to the problem of second-generation immigrants, trapped in the mazes of Italy’s absurd and anachronistic legal system.
