Il pane a vita

In October 2012 after 123 years the cotton factory Honegger of Albino closed down in the middle valley of Bergamo where working is a religion In the cotton factory the place at the loom was handed down from mother to daughter and newly employed workers were sure to have found ol pà n véta their bread and butter for a life time Following for a whole winter the daily life of three workers on unemployment benefits the film narrates the decline now definitive of a whole idea of work and society and the subsequent emptiness Such a transition concerns the whole of Italy where a fourth of the industrial power was lost in the last five years However Italy is not clearly dealing with such a transition yet Now that bread is finished how are we going to reinvent our life