The story of the long journey that retraced the deportation of twenty-six Jews captured in the province of Cuneo.
‘... when I returned home, everyone looked at me as if I were a hero, and I too felt a little like a hero for what I had done; so I thought: look how little it takes nowadays to be a hero, just put one foot in front of the other two million four hundred thousand times and you're done...’.
Viaggio ad Auschwitz a/r (Return Trip to Auschwitz) is the story of a man convinced of his moral integrity and sense of justice who, one day, while visiting the Buchenwald concentration camp, imagines himself as a prisoner there and discovers his dark side, dramatically realising that in that situation he could renounce all his ethical principles in order to survive.
To escape the abyss into which this discovery has plunged him, he sets off on a long pilgrimage on foot, following the routes of deportation, searching for himself, the facts and stories of an offended humanity, and discovering the miraculous power of contact and relationship with people and the world.
Written and performed by Gimmi Basilotta, with live music by Isacco Basilotta.