Don Giacomo is placed under protective care. The protection programme obliges him to follow precise rules: he can’t stay in one place for too long, he can’t go to certain places, he must change his route often, he cannot go to the barber. At first he doesn’t understand. ‘Why can’t I?’ he asks. They explain to him that the tendency is to ‘eliminate’ people when they come out of the barber’s, to shoot them just at that moment, because the message is: he got all spruced up for the photo on his grave.

After the threats he often has a dream, which is always the same: he sees two men, guns in hand, chasing another man, who in the end can’t run anymore and collapses. The pursuers reach him, shoot him and run away. Then Don Giacomo goes over and sees that the man lying dead on the ground is actually himself.

Despite the fact that none of this stops, he carries on. He goes to find out how to change the name on the gas and electricity accounts. But at the Municipality they tell him: you have to open brand-new accounts because there are none there. ‘How can that be? There were kitchens, chandeliers, Jacuzzis.’ ‘Right, but the accounts weren’t in anyone’s name.’ Who paid? As is often the case with the Mafia, the building was illegal and so were all the utilities. They’d even forced the electrician to install an internet connection.

Notwithstanding all the difficulties, threats and delays, the community is launched. In it, people with disabilities live and work. Here I truly came to understand what the term ‘differently abled’ means: that it’s not a polite way to say ‘handicapped’, but denotes having skills that people without disabilities don’t have. In that situation of forced proximity, for the first time the bosses find themselves up against a priest who tells them: ‘Look, I won’t ever come here armed, we’re only concerned with our community.’ The point is that they saw people in wheelchairs, people who were unarmed, who by their vulnerability powerfully and vehemently affirmed the desire for legitimacy. Until then, all the properties seized in Lamezia Terme had been left vacant. The Municipality had never been able to reassign them to anyone. The bosses could not accept the fact that people in wheelchairs could come and defeat them.