Nosotros, los Caserta

Chela Stradolini reviews a trunk of papers and photos, memories of an exile that account for her biography. She, who was never anything to anyone, does not even get emotional when facing the death of her great love, an impossible story, like almost all the relationships she has had throughout her life. The revision of those objects of hers takes her to her childhood as a rich girl, gifted, too skinny, and too dark for the bourgeois taste of the time. Adolescence in a boarding school, the discovery of literature, escapades to Chile, Paris and Rome. The eccentricity of wealthy families in interwar Europe. And a trip to Sicily, to the Caserta estate, in search of a lineage, and to meet her great-aunt, with whom she will finally live a passionate romance. All that is Chela, and also nights of sleeping pills and tranquilizers; elixirs to soothe pain. In the background, the last attempts of a decadent oligarchy to stay on their feet.