June 1994. Twenty-year-old Daniele wakes up in a hospital room, confused and surrounded by strangers. To his horror, Daniele learns from the doctors that he's been sentenced to a week of mandatory treatment in a psychiatric ward. Writing with lucid realism and stunning emotional force, and drawing from his own personal experience of mental illness, Mencarelli chronicles Daniele's seven days in the hospital as he struggles to find a way out of the darkness. Along with his fellow patients, they will realize the hidden strength and value of their common fragility and of the boundless empathy they feel towards others.
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