means that she's the face of a protest movement. i didn't think so many women would send me the photos. she's there motivator. all of us hire on this one must be the and she won't give up to watch the stomach for public took my brother hostage a few days ago. the trying to sign in the scene on the job. they won't be silent. starts june 3rd on dw, the, and abandoned village, and the south of at least 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. 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 the or he came to europe as

a refugee that's been okay monica. i mean you can start oh is that your tele, these are my beautiful one at night. yes. you're pretty sure. let me ready. ready? pretty the meeting. come find it. we 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 and for the land and to the they provide us with food and obviously they need something to live on themselves. but they give so much back down. but rosella is now 63 and can no longer manage all the work on her own market came just at the right time. ro settler met him 2 years ago at a refugee shelter. she'd long been on the lookout for someone to help her, but hadn't found anyone willing to live and work with her in this remote location.

montana is great. he's so kind very respectful and not afraid of hard work. get on the day but the she thought he also knows what he's doing and help 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. monica 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 that 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 for the interpreter, i mean, i like it, it's nice. but the problem is that there's nobody here, the things that they don't want to live, see it on it's, it's just the 2 of us intends to dot to load. 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 of that. meanwhile has carried home the fresh goat milk. back to the village where no one else lives. printed not too low is one of 20 so called ghost towns in

calabria. italy's port or south is strewn with deserted villages. when rosella 1st came to pen deductible, 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 a band and 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. the most of as many people are shocked when they hear that i live in an abandoned village. many are so afraid of being lonely. should they even fear silence? but others admire me because i lead such a simple life with you on the view that and somehow i'm keeping this place alive. otherwise it would really be a ghost town 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, wild herbs, 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 15 minutes. i've always found it satisfying to work hard seal, and it was what i did them and then see the fruits of my labor afterwards. fuzzy got it. it'll probably double me that a little day. i will follow up with us on the spot often. 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. we don't have the we do have pasta. i'll mix in the side 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 cook goose. the tale and cuisine is still not really his thing. dominican i love cooking my data and molly and food is the best of

my god. mama is almost obsessed with cooking with you. i always told 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 homes. micah, hurry up. i'm ready. you to go. 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 mind. 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. that's nice. at some stage, the older generation has to make way for the young to use the same play. now young chinese illustrated little spot to jo. then target the school started going 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. 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 up to me, it's like working for my own model going through, but any 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 rosa la 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 to get an hour from now. sometimes i still feel lonely here because i don't speak the language well, but that's what we're, you know, it's difficult to communicate. and i hope that by going to school, i will understand more and more italian and things will change. doing what a difficult step in the 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 a european who had only a vague idea of molly went to live the 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, are exactly what he needs to be granted. an official visa, the

living brought out a smoker really needs to learn italian and get a drivers 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 if you post on the gate, because after that, so we'll have to see who did i so that she knew, or at the end of the summer, rosella prepared supplies, to carry them through the winter to be completed 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. 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, me cuz i need to ship. it has life and it would have now i use my hands. i prefer to do it with my hands. i know it has all the goodness and energy of the summer sun in it that will help warm us up in winter. a lot of it's beautiful me. but no, no many have been fascinated by rosella in her way of life. they wanted to join her and this goes town. but none of

them stayed for long or not. i can't imagine any other life that was 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, and 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 you show and, but in the end i was always on my own again, because they didn't have the willpower or 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 monica demonica, rosella and monica aren't expecting a bumper harvest because of the drought. another problem is that the goal,

it's like to nibble at the trees, but rosella doesn't let any of it get her down. right. if you're going to see how good it is here, the air that we're breathing is so clean, the 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 sent to my, what do you think is that okay? yeah, i'm a lot. and they've spread out the net. so monica can now start to rake the olives 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. no more this but my fiance is waiting for me in my late any that i can't bring her here as it would just be too expensive and they put me on where you have

a new weight instead, marcus ends 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 put them to you. and if it's important that you studies when 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 with that i see the seller. oh, are you ready now? gone. i can see coming, shall we start? it's time for him to do his homework. mark,

i never learned to read in 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. and then he maybe meant d e. and then the d. e. sector did t because what's an object to an object legit? no, no, no. so what's this here? let's take a pencil. so you, i'm not exactly the pencil is an object. as the course, i got a so 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, was monica until he got to the point where he was able to read just the feeling of young or if she lived, just stop by the d. w

. how the loans that i'm on yours and not she's been helping me so much since i came here and the not able to get us and i'm missing. she helps me with school to scare my bab or now i've been doing 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 to me once a year printed dots hello is awakened from its slumber. its all thanks to this man. him on 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. one thing in the spring so long. oh, you grown because i have the doors and now you're the same as the the the might her god know told you are, my son is beautiful. we need reading. we know there's the festival. ok in 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 pend it on zillow. piece with the visitors from all over the world will be on this terrace during the film festival fence adapting a will come and live again. suddenly you hear voices. the windows are open. there are lights and the narrow alley ways are 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 that i 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 routes, but 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 do a looking festival and model, that'd be then the clock, 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 flood into the ghost town for 3 days. should we be here? if you will, post is people arriving. so please make sure the places are in permanent location means spoken. roosevelt also has her work cut out for her during the festival. how defensive that below is alive again. 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. see somebody kind of under the same cost. i love to help

you guys we work and have fun together. you know, the work is that it's as busy in the kitchen as it is outside in the village. and rosa la 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 la profits from the magical charm of her home. throughout the summer, she runs out rooms to tourists and cooks for her guests. by my 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 her terrorist is now full of visitors. and so everyone wants go need a little to drive. 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 that, you know, have a future after all. good art and culture helped to revive this goes down the it doesn't increase the

volume just so my simply from the film festival is a test you. if you like, you know, we're not the ones who can change the face of this village. it will have a good plan and go with it so that the sooner we can do that, all we're doing what we can to keep the spice of life. we to see what i mean, but there's so much to do. and we can't do it a lot about it. 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 cut leaf eyes also for molly. the 2 of them met in calabria levin to have a friend visit a or was that makes me very happy. 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 painted that. the loan is once again a ghost town. the place that rosella once fell in love with i need to quiet and when things get too much for me, i like to come here, pete. my god, even maybe that's the reason why i'm here to show the world that you can actually live with very little, you know, since i will,

it is without this constant craving for more. it's an unhealthy craving that never makes you happy. if i said, if any she me 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 with that not go, not it may be something new will be born here in the future. we'll see d. k and put that on for to do that, so the rosella and marco 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 zillow, and they know they can count on each other. the many other one number mediately highway later on us. and i don't want to, i would never even consider leaving now, but i think a different i don't know what else live has in store for me finding of it. but i know one thing that you don't mean that we need. i will stay by rosella side docket or for someone to go back and go from the top of them in the

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