(AGENPARL) – Rome, june 09 2020 – A near future, a sombre background rumble, a suffering humanity unwilling to listen to the blaring alarms of a planet in agony. A curse of unprecedented evil, its origin inexplicable, begins to grow, spreading through the insistent indifference of people going about their lives. Not even Eli, the protagonist, is preoccupied, instead attempting to find a balance between her work in an action house and a troubled relationship. She is oblivious to her own power and desperately wishes to remain estranged from the vivid ghosts that haunt her dreams. Her problems arise when the phantoms she fears begin to reveal themselves in the daylight, and the camomile infused tea can no longer silence them. Their whispers tell her to take action, they encourage her to dig deeper into her past and embrace her true self.
Baby-Lon.616 proposes various levels of understanding. It treats the constant battle between pure and evil and the opaque definitions which they hold. The sounds, signs and words deprived of meaning confound Eli, who desperately attempts to hold on to a sense of “normality”. With help from her good friend Magda, and an elderly librarian, she chooses to undertake this challenge.
Andrea Sadà is a character suspended between fiction and reality, similarly to his writing. He is educated in classical studies and has a deep curiosity for natural sciences and the study of ancient pharmacopoeia: the metallic luster of coleopteras and the arbitrary shape of trees. At times he fantasizes about saving the world, other times he does not. He appreciates classical literature, but does not turn away fantasy novels. He cried when D.F Wallace passed, and aspires to write like Margret Atwood or Stephen King. He frequents exhibitions and contemporary art fairs, travels for work and pleasure, where he carefully observes the routine of others. Lately he has been listening to ALT-J and Carmina Burana’s songs at full volume.