When two or more chemical elements characterized by a certain reciprocal affinity
meet, in determined conditions of temperature and pressure, it may happen that a reaction initiates itself:
and from that moment, nothing is nomore as before.
The reactives transform themselves into products, and the environning middle, which participates to the reaction,
finds itself, in the end, completely changed, changed in an irreversible mode, forever.
CHAIN RE(L)A(C)TIONS
Nothing as before.
[Voice over - Laura] If one would ask me, I couldn't tell what stuff has happened.
It happened, that's it; one morning, as I returned from the supermarket,
- I had accompanied Emma at school, Chiara was already gone a little earlier-
I came back at home, I put down the bags that were cutting my hands.
I heard a very strong silence
And I'm just gone, like that, without even emptying shopping bags.
Genoa [Sounds coming from TV in the backgroud]
[Chiara] It's already three days.
Sure that YOU are a great help.
I'm fed up with eating chips and cheese slices, they make me a shitty face!
We call them?
[Knock on the door - male voice] Open! Police!
[Chiara] You're scary, scary movie!
Milano
[male voice - Manager 1] Congratulations Alessia,
your work in the enterprise, in the last years, has been really excellent;
With this promotion, we're expecting great things of you.
[Manager 2] Being in charge of the marketing sector of the Turin division will be a great effort;
The colleagues of the management board can't wait to know you.
[Alessia] Good.
[Manager2] I recommend, don't let us down, and above all, don't do us the trick to get pregnant now, hey!
[Alessia] No, look, there is no danger, I would not even have time.
And then... work before all, no?
Torino
[Jogger] Hey, careful!
[Silvia] Sorry, I hadn't seen you, sorry.
[The telephone rings]
The next day.
[Knock on door] [Olga - strong accent of Eastern Europe] Silvia! Silvia! has called Police!
[Jogger] The Police!?
[Olga] If you not go, their come.
And also here much come-and-go, I see?
And girl conscience not clean.
[Silvia] Excuse me, I, in an hour, have a lecture...
[Police woman] You're not a bit old to still go to school?
[Silvia] Non, really I teach at University.
[Police woman] Ah.
[Silvia] Mhm.
[Police woman] Do you know Missis Laura Logiudice?
[Silvia] Yes! Yes, yes. She's my aunt, she lives in Genoa, with two daughters -
[Police woman] Chiara and Emma
[Silvia] Yes, that's how they're named. But, has something happened?
[Police woman] Do you see each other sometimes, do you have a good relationship?
[Silvia] Hey, no: I d-didn't see my aunt s-since she moved to Genoa, after my uncle died, from then she hasn't been in touch.
[Police woman] Look, Missis Logiudice has left her house three days ago. And she didn't turn back.
The girls, the girls are alone and technically it constitutes a case of abandonment.
And inexplicably they've asked to be enthrusted to you.
[Silvia] T-to me?
[Police woman] No, to me, hey, I don't know! I keep them?
[Silvia] No, no... It is just that I hardly know them; but how feels the girls -
[Police woman] And how do you want them to be? The younger, since her mother is gone, she doesn't speak, she draws;
and the elder...
[Silvia] The elder?
[Police woman] The elder...
...is 17 years old.
[Silvia] hum, sorry, girls, I didn't forsee passengers. I make a quick phone-call and fix this.
[Chiara] But this one is properly a loser!
[Police woman] Mah!
[The cell-phone rings]
[Olga] Da?
[Silvia] Hello Olga! It, it's Silvia; listen, I have a problem, that maybe you can solve for me...
[Olga] Silvia! What trouble you do? If it is the drug, I not want to involve.
[Silvia] But no, what are you saying, Olga! Hum, listen, you have the driving licence, don't you?
[Olga] No, pink licence! (= provisional licence) And anyway I not transport drug.
[Silvia] But there is no drug! A-anyway, alright, the pink licence is equal.
[Olga] No, not equal! Driving licence for driving, pink licence for exercicing.
[Silvia] Hey, yeas. T-that's true. But anyway, listen, I need you to bring my car here, at the police station.
[Olga] And how I bring it?
[Silvia] Hey, you drive it!?
[Olga] Me cannot drive cars! Only exercice!
[Silvia] Ah. In fact! In fact you exercice yourself with my car up to here, at the police station.
[Olga] Not driving? Only exercice, ok?
[Silvia] Ok, ok, but do hurry!
[Olga] Hold hard, I arrive.
And throw drug!
[klaxon of different cars]
[Olga] Haste good only to catch flees.
[Alessia] Why doesn't it go ahead, sorry? What happens?
[Taxi Driver] Madam, I do what's possible! But a clumsy one puts herself in the middle of the road!
I could take away driving license from the women, all due respect, hey Madam!
[Alessia] Yeah, alright, think about driving, I'm in a hurry, there are people waiting for me in the office.
[Taxi driver] Ah, you have a severe boss, don't you!
And she puts herself in double row, now!
[Voice over - Laura] Sometimes, it happens that two people look at each other like Candy Candy was watching,
with the eyes that tremble.