CURRENT ACCOUNT

WE PAY THE TAXES. WE CHOOSE THE SERVICES.

von Raffaele Piscitelli

212 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Have you ever thought of stopping paying your taxes? Not to keep the money - but to deposit it in a bank account and wait for the state to do its job?Marco Ferrara, a retired factory worker from Brescia, hears on the evening news that the government has allocated four billion euros to weapons. He thinks about his urgent cardiology appointment - seven months waiting. He thinks about the neighbour who died waiting for an oncology visit. About the friend with a broken femur, attacked by a youth gang that was released the next day. About another neighbour's apartment, illegally occupied, court hearing in twenty-two months, nobody able to do anything.He takes a squared paper sheet. He writes two columns: WHAT I HAVE GIVEN and WHAT I HAVE RECEIVED. The accounts don't balance.The next morning he opens a bank account. Name: Civil Deposit - Public Services Suspended. He deposits his November pension: 940 euros. A young man at the billiard table photographs the sheet with the IBAN and posts it on social media. Within twenty-four hours: 280,000 views. Within a week the account holds ten million euros.What is born is not a revolt. It is a question. Precise, documented, impossible to ignore. A question that crosses Italy, reaches Europe, and forces two presidents to shake hands with a retired man in front of six million people.Current Account is a civil thriller about the Italy we all know - false waiting lists, youth gangs, illegally occupied homes, institutional indifference. It is the story of a man who stopped pretending. And of a country that, perhaps, has stopped waiting.And you? How do you face this indifference?