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weekdays on d, w and abandoned village and the south of at lee. it's been 50 years since these houses were last occupied. printed that below is one of many goes townsend calabria. but perhaps it's just too beautiful to be abandoned completely the center aquila, and the has lived in these barren hills for the past 40 years. oh

wow. and so she still tends to her goats every morning. but for the past 2 years, she's no longer been alone. now she has not got to in colorado at her side. oh yeah, that's clive monica comes from a small village in south western molly, where he worked as a shepherd and farmer that was before he came to europe as a refugee that's been okay monica. you can start to those budgets and these are my beautiful one, at least. yes, you're pretty sure. let me really pretty, pretty the meeting come fine. if you live in the countryside, you need animals. you say, especially if you want to be self sufficient to associations that they're important for us for the land and they provide us with food and obviously they need something

to live on themselves. but they give so much background. but rosella is now 63 and can no longer manage all the work on her own. monica came just at the right time. ro sattler met him 2 years ago at a refugee shelter. she long been on the lookout for someone to help her, but hadn't found anyone willing to live in work with her in this remote location. i can put on my car is great. he's so kind very respectful and not afraid of hard work. get on the but the she thought he also knows what he's doing. i me to and in fact he actually likes being here because it's so much like his own country. so he feels at home. we, we work really well together in the calabria region is suffering from a prolonged drought. mancha sometimes walks with the goats for half a day to find food for them. moving

from place to place and working hard in search of a better future is a way of life at monica is no stranger to when he left molly, he got by doing odd jobs 1st, and algeria then in the chair and then in libya. but his goal was to get to europe . after 6 years, he finally made it onto a refugee boat that took him across the mediterranean to sicily. later he came to calabria. there on the entered the throne. me. i like it here. it's nice. but the problem is that there's nobody here are things that they don't want to live, see it on in. so it's just the 2 of us in pen to dr. low. so it's not easy. as you know, there are hardly any jobs in calabria and few prospect youth unemployment stands at 37 percent the highest in italy. many just want to leave. but for mock up,

this very place has provided the opportunity he was looking for the most cellar. meanwhile has carried home the fresh goat milk or back to the village, where no one else lives printed dante lo is one of 20 so called ghost towns and calabria. italy's poor south is strewn with deserted villages. when rosella 1st came depended not too low the village had already been uninhabited for 10 years. that was back in 1983 when she was in her early twenties and searching for a life of freedom and independence. the

pacific i'm from this house will come up soon. the roof is already gone. and when i arrived here, the house was all still intact and there was another here to the village. it printed dotsie low dates back to the year, 640 b, c. after several land slides, the village was finally abandoned in the early 19 seventies. all the remaining residents had to leave their homes. the blood rosella, came with the intention of staying right from the start. she gave up her job as a postal worker near milan and left her own life behind her. unlimited, as many people are shocked when they hear that i live in an abandoned village. many are so afraid of being lonely. sure. they even fear silence. but others admired me because i lead such a simple life with you on the view that somehow i'm keeping this place alive. otherwise it would really be a ghost child, or even a bias like a single said

a day that i'm in some place. if i'm past month on the slopes around the village, rosella harvests, wilder, she calls this area her secret garden. a non salt kick. so i'm, yes, be, i can't say what drove me to come here. there are some things where even 40 years later, you still wonder why you did them. but what i like about this place most is the incredible environment. every moment is a moment of ecstasy, of meditation because it's so beautiful. it's my fault. so, you know, maybe i came back here to inspire young people to work with their hands. again, not in giovanni. i looked at the coffee, she got the kids. i mean, i've always found it satisfying to work hard seal and it was what if i did them and then see the fruits of my labor afterwards so that the god is probably the software . so this one, the spouse to but the drought of recent years has made her life more difficult.

she couldn't have a vegetable garden that needs a lot of water. and so rosella has learned to live from the little that nature provides her with the concept rosella. this is her home. when she 1st moved here, she persuaded the previous owners to sell her the house for a good price. it's time for lunch, garlic, rocket salad, and some dandy lion, rosella, doesn't need much more. clear about the we do have pasta. i'll mix in the sab looking vegetables, which is all like an harvest in this desert landscape, and add a few old potatoes mock

up. the room is right next door. he has his own cooking facilities kind of prepared some meat and liver from one of the goats served with a spicy sauce and cause goose. a battalion cuisine is still not really his thing. dominican. i love cooking my data and molly and food is the best of my god. ma is almost obsessed with cooking with you. i always tell him you were a real chef. can you really? i think it's also a way for him to reconnect with his homeland. i'm the familiar chase of home micah, hurry up, i'm ready. you to and they may cook separately, but they still eat together. one of the

conversation at the table is limited. monica can't yet speak enough italian, but i want to try mine. no. no, no. that they won't stand with them. yeah, we often disagree or he wants to do things his way and i want to do the my way. he's young and i'm old to that's like at some stage the older generation has to make way for the young. he is still the same thing on the young child, he doesn't electronic low spot to joe then target the school will start again today . they may not share their food or always agree, but rosella and monica have decided they will be there for one another. the order to later with gabby that but again, i think with zillow also sees that i feel at home here. and that's what i bought.

that's why i gives my, oh, when i'm working night about the item that i brought it to me, it's like working for my own model going through, but i can meet one of them. so i do my best to know the auto degree. i was just it's an arrangement that benefits them. both. monica has a work contract wages and a new home. and rosella can continue living here in her own personal paradise because of his health, the twice a week. nocka rides his bike to a neighboring town where he's learning a tell you and he never got to go to school . and molly hopefully go. but 1st he has to carry his bike until he reaches a road. i don't

know 5, i don't. i like going to school different a month and a large occasion gives you freedom and independence in our program. sometimes i still feel lonely here because i don't speak the language well, but that's what we're here. it's difficult to communicate. and now let me hope that by going to school, i will understand more and more italian and things will change due and the difficulty being after mancha landed in sicily in 2018. he's been 2 years being moved from one refugee shelter to another. his residency status has still not been clarified to this thing. but here in calabria, monica has regained some of his freedom. we may see a boy, you never know what to expect when he come to a new place. maybe you would be the same if you are paying to add only

a vague idea of molly went to live, that it's usually not what you thought. and that's how it was to me. the evening classes are free of charge and a real opportunity for monica knowledge of italian and a permanent job with rosella or exactly what he needs to be granted. an official visa, the driving brought out a smock, a really needs to learn italian and get a driver's license cycle so far. then he can decide what he wants to do with his life. but he needs these basics, especially the language. i think that's the most important thing right now and if you can, because after that, so we'll have to see who did i so that she knew at

the end of the summer, rosella prepared supplies, to carry them through the winter to be able to comply that we only have to buy a very few things because we produce most of our food ourselves. and thanks to the goats, we always have meet milk and cheese good. yesterday, people seem to try to be as self sufficient as possible because i don't like going to the supermarket. i never know what to buy when i see all those polished vegetables and packaging it. i feel really uncomfortable. instead, she preserves everything herself. first she marinate the summer vegetables and brine for 2 weeks. then she mixes the overs jeans, carrots and peppers with fresh herbs and lots of olive oil. mindy olive oil is such a blessing. mm. love the district but has life in it. well now i use my hands,

i prefer to do it with my hands. i love it. it has all the goodness and energy of the summer sun and that that will help warm us up in winter. a lot of it's beautiful. mm. but no no many have been fascinated by rosella and her way of life. they wanted to join her in this ghost town, but none of them stayed for long or not. i can't imagine any other life that though i wish to say there's nothing that i would change for and thank god, i had the great fortune of meeting monica, who makes it possible for me to continue me. so it, i mean, i've had friends in the past who would say, let's move here together. let's set up a community i'm you should be shown, but in the end, i was always on my own again, because they didn't have the willpower just for the courage to follow through. getting companion moved to no, no, no,

we'll do. let's natal. i'm already on the phone on june. the 5 just behind the village is the old olive grove. some of the trees that are here now were bought by rosella many years ago. from you and from that it's mca demonica, rosella and demonica, aren't expecting a bumper harvest because of the drought. another problem is that the goats liked and nibbled at the trees. but rosella doesn't let any of it get her down. ready for you? let me see how good it is here. the air that we're breathing is so clean and sure it's windy sometimes, but i feel so alive. v will know if i can feel nature and i never get tired of it. and we think of my, what do you think is that okay? yeah, mostly lot they've spread out than that. so monica can now start to rake the all

lives from the trees. he did this job while in libya, back then he was harvesting all lives to raise money for the traffickers and the refugee boat smell more or less, but my fiance is waiting for me in my life. any that i can't bring here, as it would just be too expensive and they put me on while you have a new way. instead moccasins, most of the money that he earns back to molly. in this way, he's supporting his mother and enabling his fiance to study and for them to you. and if it's important that you studies where you don't have that option, so you've got a manual. but in the end it's good for both of us. are you with that? but i'm supporting her now, and she will help me in the future or side by the pc, the

seller. oh, are you ready, michael? and i can see coming, shall we start? it's time for him to do his homework. mock, i never learned to read and right now he wants to make up for lost time and learn italian to good today and for that he needs rosa. let's help not let me get maybe lee many, many, many d, e and there is a d. e sector dick d because what's an object to an object legit? no, no, no. as to what's this here?

talk to a pencil. see i'm with exactly the pencil is an object a step because i got also emotional when he started reading. i felt like a mother when her son starts to spell. it happens little by little. and that's how it was with monica. he loves until he got to the point where he was able to read it or just the piano or if she lived, just stop by the t v. w. how do you pronounce that? i'm on yours or not cuz she's been helping me so much since i came here and they're not able to get us in are missing. she helps me with school to. that's a lot they are there now. i've been getting my program there. thanks to i can now read and write a little bit dull. and as a, as you know, i can now write my own name to along it a little. or once a year,

pension dot hello is awakened from it slumber. it's all thanks to this man. and by the way, let me lousy. he grew up just a few kilometers from here and remembers the ghost town from his youth. he would come here secretly with friends, and they would scare each other by telling horror stories. are fedloan? yes. yes. that's the one thing that's been so long. oh you grown. that's because i have the doors are now, but you're saying that they have the the might for god know told you are, my son is beautiful. we need bring. we know there's the festival. ok. and 2 days, 3 the when it works as a screenwriter in milan, he left calabria to go to university and pursue his dream. but he's never forgotten

his roots. and every year the organizes an international short film festival and printed out the low piece was by the drops of your visitors from all over the world will be on this terrace. during the film festival pence adapting a will come and live again. suddenly you hear voices, the windows are open. there are lights and the narrow alley, ways or to she noticed study, you know, but normal life and calabria, otherwise looks very different. 300000 people have left the region in the last 10 years alone. the brain drain is a real problem and monteray knows that from his own experience, but they don't feel like dr. low is like the last world. but we will long for this when we carries inside. that's what i would like to be able to work in the area where they come from with their route so we don't need it. mostly that's not possible. thank without any movies yet. and the film festival is my way of saying,

let's come back here and looking festival and model, that'd be that doesn't come across the income they do. even though pinned it down too low is no longer accessible by car. from the end of the road, they have to make the steep climb on foot. the festival draws to arrest filmmakers and film lovers from all over the world. hundreds of visitors flooded into the ghost town for 3 days. to receive here if you will, post is people arriving. so please make sure the post is armed. permanent location means spoken. rosella also has her work cut out for her during the festival. 7 defensive dr. though is

alive again. ok. she's cooking for some of the visitors. by the way, little has come to help her. he's a chef by trade and grew up in calabria. but these days he lives and works in berlin. whenever i come to calabria, i always tried to spend a few days with rosella to wake up under the same cost. i love to help you guys do the work and have fun together. 2 working at it is that it's as busy in the kitchen as it is outside in the village. and rosa can earn some extra money. and normally my life is very quiet. but during the film festival, everything is different. friends come to see us,

we cook for them and they leave us a small donation. like from, you know, she cooks for up to 40 people a day. and the film festival isn't the only time when rosa le profits from the magical charm of her home. throughout the summer, she rents out rooms to tourists and cooks for her guests. place on the same time a simple person is what i do. i enjoy the fact or maybe i should. now for example, preparing all the food is stressful, but i enjoy doing it because when i see that people are happy and when they tell me, oh it's so good. i get back the energy i invested. 2 the her terrorist is now full of visitors.

and so every one wants go need a little to try. okay. her ghost town has come back to life. finally, the streets are filled with life again. the film festival feels like a ray of hope. code pen did not, you know, have a future after all. could art and culture help to revive this goes town. the. the delta doesn't fit the volume just so my simply some of the film festival suggest you. if you like. you know, we're not the ones who can change the face of this village, the planning for all the phone and internet, all we're doing what we can to keep the spice of life. we don't see what i mean, but the sudden much to do and we can't do it a lot about him. definitely until october, the for monica to. it's

a special time. it's his 1st film festival and a friend of his has come along to kelly funds also for molly. the 2 of them met in calabria levin. i have a friend visit a or was that makes me very happy. i'm one of the. it's nice to see. so many people here and to watch feelings of any, do you it's great. monica never went to a cinema in molly. now there's a whole film festival on his doorstep. and people have come from all over the world . the days were long during the festival,

but very satisfying for rosella to the guests have now gone and printed the loan is once again a ghost town. the place that rosella once fell in love with i need the quiet and when things get too much for me, i'd like to come here. feet. i got it or maybe that's the reason why i'm here to show the world that you can actually live with very little sensible linux without this constant craving for more. it's an unhealthy craving that never makes you happy. if i said, if he knew she knew soon, optima that i've read the secret of rose ellis happiness is a simple life, which she's found here. if the abandoned villages of calabria are to have a future, it will take people like rosella and to monica. people with

a vision who are willing to put in the work those who can perhaps learn to live with less. rosella is convinced there are others like her out there. the, even if you do find optimistic about the future of pent deductible. and once you see it, you can never forget it. a lot of young people approach me and offer to help. i find this so beautiful. i mean that not go, not, it may be something new will be born here in the future. it will she do a bit good and that gets started on so to do that so rosella and monica don't get any support from the authorities. so they put in the work themselves to keep the streets free from level. they won't give up on pen, did not too low, and they know they can count on each other. the

many other one number mediately highway later would have sent out what i would never even consider leaving. how may i address in that department? i don't know what else live has in store for me finding of it, but i know one thing that you would let me know when need. i will stay by rosella side of the docket or for someone to go back to me before the top of the green. fantastic. do you feel worried about the panic meals? most of the on the green fence post cost and so we, it's clear, we mean joint predicts, i've been to the green transformation for me to use for the plan,

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