Otello Chelli, “Rizio”

Rizio belongs to the “Morgiano lineage”, he is young, handsome, poor. Rizio is a hard and pure Communist, with a noble, supportive, almost evangelical soul. He lives in the slum, built on the lawns of the Nuova fortress following the bombing that devastated Livorno. Well-liked by the leaders of the party, he is making a career as a politician, maintaining independence of judgment and personal conscience. He runs into Valeria Righi, a leading exponent of the Christian Democrats. Valeria is older than Rizio, she is a fervent Catholic, anti-Communist, married with children. But she is beautiful, sweet, innocent, as…