Waalo Fendo Where the Earth Freezes

Milan like Paris or Stuttgart and like many other European cities is the theater of the drama of immigration Demba reconstructs his story and that of his brother Yaro both Senegalese immigrants in Italy in a long and fragmentary flashback that begins with Yaros murder and recounts their departure from the village arrival in Europe the work they find selling lighters and picking tomatoes in the south of Italy the stages every nonEEC citizen goes through in Italy