When two or more chemical elements characterized by a certain reciprocal affinity
come into contact under specific conditions of pressure and temperature
a reaction may take place, after which nothing is as it was before
the reactants becoming transformed into products and the environment irreversibly changed.
CHAIN REACTIONS
Nothing is as it was before.
Even if you asked me, I wouldn't quite know how to say what happened: it just happened.
One morning, I was coming back from the supermarket, I'd just taken Emma to school; Chiara had already gone off a little while earlier.
I got in, put the shopping bags down, they were cutting into my hands.
I heard this really deafening silence and so I left, just like that, without even taking the stuff out of the bags...
It's been three days now...
A great help YOU are.
I've had it up to here with eating chips and cheese slices
they bring my face out in spots.
You want me to call them?
Police, open the door!
You freak me out, Scarymovie.
Congratulations Alessia, your work in the company over the past few years has been first rate.
With this promotion, we're expecting great things of you.
Being in charge of the marketing sector of the Turin division will mean a lot of work.
My colleagues on the board of management can't wait to meet you.
Good!
Don't let us down, will you!
And above all, don't play that little trick of getting pregnant now, eh?
No, no fear of that.
I wouldn't even have time, my work comes first.
Hey, watch out, will you?
Sorry, I didn't see you there...
The morning after.
[speaking with thick Russian accent] Silvia, Silvia! Has called police.
The police?
If you not going, they coming here.
Also here I am seeing much come-and-go and girl not have conscience clean.
Excuse me, I'm supposed to be in class in an hour.
Aren't you a little too old to be going to school still?
Well actually I'm a lecturer at the university.
Well now, do you know Laura Logiudice?
Yes, she's my aunt. She lives in Genoa with her daughters.
Chiara and Emma...
Yes, those are their names. Has something happened?
Are you in regular contact? Do you have a close relationship?
No, I haven't seen her for years, not since she went to live in Genoa
after her husband, that's my uncle, died. She hasn't been in touch since then.
Well, you see, Mrs Logiudice left home three days ago
and hasn't returned since.
The girls are on their own. Technically speaking it's a case of abandonment.
And inexplicably they've asked for you to have custody over them.
...me?
I dunno. You want me to have them?
No... but I hardly know them.
Anyway, how are... ?
What do you expect? The younger one hasn't spoken at all since her mother left, she just makes drawings.
- And as for the older one... - The older one?
The older one...
...is seventeen.
Sorry, girls, I wasn't expecting passengers.
I'll just make a quick phone-call and fix everything.
She's a real loser.
Da
Hello Olga, it's Silvia here.
I've got a little problem you might be able to help me with.
[speaking with thick Russian accent] Silvia! What is mess you in? If is drugs, I not wanting involved.
No, no, what are you saying, Olga? Listen, you have a driving licence, don't you?
No, I got only provisional licence and also not want transporting drugs.
But there aren't any drugs!
Ok, the provisional licence will do the same anyway.
No, not same. Licence is for drive, provisional only for learn.
Yes, well, that's right.
But I need you to bring my car round to the police station.
And how I bring?
By driving it.
I not can drive motor vehicle, only for learn and practise.
Well... just "practise" with my car as far as the police station here.
Not drive, practise ok?
Ok, ok, just be as quick as you can please.
I arriving, hold tight. And remember throw away drugs.
Haste good only for catch fleas.
Why are we going so slow? What's holding us up?
Listen, I'm doing my best but there's an idiot up ahead who isn't moving.
If you ask me, women drivers should be banned.
With all due respect, of course.
Just concentrate on the driving, will you?
I'm in a hurry. They're expecting me at the office.
Tough boss, eh?
She also duble-parked!
Sometimes it may happen that two people look at each other with the big trembling eyes of Candy Candy.