the yeah, the new jobs, she's the face of a protest movement. she's their motivator. all of us here, our lives are most of these. and she won't give up, no matter what nomic or public took my brother hostage a few days ago, the trying to sign. and let's see on the job. they will be slightly starts june, 3rd dw, the, and abandoned the village and the south of italy. it's been 50 years since these houses were last occupied. printed that below is one of many ghost towns in calabria. but perhaps it's just too beautiful to be abandoned completely. the

santa 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 mock a 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 that's then.

okay monica, and then you can start those budgets and these are my beautiful one ad lane. yes, you're pretty sure. let me really 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 that are 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 mancha 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. good on

the 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. mock us 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. and 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. prevail on the interpreter. i mean, i like it,

it's nice. but the problem is that there's nobody here spends that they don't want to live, see it on in. so it's just the 2 of us intensive dot to low. so it's not easy. as you know, there are hardly any jobs in calabria and few prospect use. unemployment stands at 37 percent the highest in italy. many just want to leave. but for a mock up, this very place has provided the opportunity he was looking for the most cellar. meanwhile has carried home the fresh goat milk. back to the village where no one else lives. printed 19 o is one of 20 so called ghost towns in calabria. italy's poorer south is strewn

with deserted villages. when rosella 1st came to pen did 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 collapse 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 flood 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 to they even fear silence. but others admire me because i lead such a simple life with you on the view and somehow i'm keeping this place alive. otherwise it would really be a ghost child or even a bias like a single set of david. i'm into 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, you can say what drove me to come here. there are some things where even 40 years later is 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 to join you. 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 i think got if it will probably dump them in a little bit how they will fall press. 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. we don't have the we do have punched up. ready i'll mix in the side looking vegetables, which is all like in harvest and this desert landscape, and add a few old potatoes where a mazda the room is right next door. he has his own cooking facilities. tenants prepared some meat and liver from one of the goats served with a spicy sauce and whose goose italian cuisine is still not really his thing. i've 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 tell him you're

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 made cook separately, but they still eat together. one of the conversation at the table is limited. monica can yet speak enough italian, but i want to try mind. no, no, no. i'm not the whole thing, i'm 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 site. at some stage, the older generation has to make way for the young to use the same thing on

e. m chaney, the 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 debbie. but again, i think with zillow also sees that i feel at home here. and that's what i bought, that's why i give my, oh, when i'm working night about the guy. but to me it's like working for my own model and again through but any one of them. so i do my best on a, the way i have was 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, he was sent 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 enough for me. i hope that by going to school, i will understand more and more italian and things will change to a new one. with the difficulty being the after monica 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. the make the 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 saw it. 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 learning, but he needs these basics, especially the language. i think that's the most important thing right now if you found the game because after that, so we'll have to see who did i. so this evening 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. yes. see people see me. i try to be a 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, me and i need to ship it has life in it. well now i use my hands. i prefer to do it with my hands. it's thank you. i wish 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 in this ghost town, but none of them stayed for long enough. i can't imagine any other life.

i wish to say there's nothing that i would change for. and thank god, i have 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 them, 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 can move to no, no, no, we'll do. let's needed. 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. the demonica, rosella and demonica 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 i can feel nature and i never get tired of it. and we send to my, what do you think? is that okay? yeah, mostly lot or they've spread out than that. 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 the bed, 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, 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. i thought 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 looking to see what 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 he learned italian to good today and for that he needs rosa. let's help not

let me get maybe lee. and then he made e mail, d, e and then a d e should dare dare to because what's an object to an object legit, non place to. what's this here? a septic a pencil. so yeah, i mean the exactly, the pencil is an object as the cost i got a so emotional when he started reading, i felt like a mother when her son starts to sco under. it happens little by little and that's how it was with monica. he loved 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 t v. w. how do you pronounce that?

i'm on yours and now she's been helping me so much since i came here and they're not able to get us and i'm missing. she helps me with school to share my day i've are 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 go along it a little. a once a year, pension dots hello is awakened from it slumber. it's all thanks to this man. a mind. well, let me live a she 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 and now you're saying that they have the the might for god know told you are, my son is beautiful. we need reading. we know there's the festival. okay. 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 route. and every year the organizes an international short film festival and printed out the low 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 or to she noticed some, 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 did i feel like that's the lowest 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 a few more post is people arriving. so please make sure the post is on permanent location means spoken. rosella also has her work cut out for her during the festival. how defensive that below 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 we work and have fun together

to look at it. as i mean 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 young 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 rents out rooms to tourists and cooks for her guests. based on the same time, a simple person is what i do. i enjoy the fact or maybe i should. now for example, of 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. so every one wants go meet, other levels of 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 the film festival suggest you if you like. you know, we're not the ones who can change the face of this village. it will have a good 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 meant, but this 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 khalifa is also for molly. the 2 of them met in calabria levin. i have a friend visit a or 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 from 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 to quiet and when things get too much for me, i like to come here, pete. my god, you know, maybe that's the reason why i'm here to show the world that you can actually live with very little, you know, sense of linux without this constant craving for more. it's an unhealthy craving that never makes you happy, defies sort of finishing 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 demonica. people with a vision who are willing to put into 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 do of this game

and i can put that on for to do that. so the 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 dot too low, and they know they can count on each other. the many other one number media 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 who would like to go from the top of the, the, the,

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