The conflict with destiny represents the unique plot of a journey of no return that Calabria has been facing for years. In times of falling birth rates there is no logic that holds, there are no certainties, especially for those who live in the most remote areas of this earth. Depopulation is like an infection that advances with its burden of concern, mortgaging the future of this region of ours. The flight of young people and the decline in birth rates are factors that are changing the characteristics of the South in general, deforming the characteristics of territories that no longer appear the same. In the inland towns we suffer more than elsewhere from isolation and abandonment, with children leaving and families aging and becoming impoverished without any generational turnover. Silence fills above all the small urban agglomerations, those of houses clinging to rock ridges or spread across increasingly sunny countryside. It is there, in those increasingly less inhabited villages, that Italy is struggling to arrive. It is there, among those people, that the State has decided to retreat.
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