Anna is thirsty. The whole city has been thirsty for weeks. Some will call them the days of the Great Thirst, and others will remember them as the Four Days of Naples. It is 1943 and water is lacking everywhere, except in the house where Anna lives with her family. But Anna’s thirst is different, insatiable: it is a thirst for life and a future of redemption. In her twenties, she would like to live in a world without rubble, without the constant ambush of air raid sirens. There is no time for dreams, but just as Naples freed itself, Anna too must find her own way to salvation. Erica Cassano debuts with a powerful and profound voice: ‘La Grande Sete’ is the story of a world, of its silences and noises, of a yearning for something greater that resides in each of us. Moderated by Cecilia Lazzarotto. In partnership with BrivioDue Bookstore.