Enzo Pietropaoli

Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle-aged couple who used to be well-off. He is an intellectual, moderate and patient. She is an anxious housewife. They have a ten-year old son who is filled with melodramatic revenge fantasies and a twelve-year old daughter. With the arrival of Captain Kalter everything is wiped out. The methodical, ascetic, cruel Kalter is a military god who inflicts terror. And the Helianos give in, submissive. They are now servants, with no identity other than their acquiescence...

On January 27, 2023, a concert was held at the Auditorium del Parco in L'Aquila to honor Holocaust Remembrance Day. Songs and words to tell the story and express the hope that a time will come when we no longer need to live in fear. Events have occurred that are hard to believe could ever happen. But fortunately, there is a powerful weapon: memory.