Sentenced to life in prison for double murder, he never confessed. He can't, he doesn't remember anything. Not only about that night, but about his past.

After ten years, the real killers are discovered and they let him out.

He finds out that he is alone.

Back in his city, seeing the places where he grew up, memories begin to resurface. Of the first thirteen years of his life, when he was happy, he had a wonderful family and an adoring father. After that, nothing. He doesn't understand why, but he tries to start over. From scratch.

The encounter with an old friend of his father makes him discover part of the truth. The father on the run. Him hiding in the car to follow him. A terrible accident that leaves him in an irreversible coma, according to the doctors. But the thing he can't accept is that his father left him in the hospital, to his destiny. He can't believe it, considering his memories of how much he loved him. He wants to find him, he has to! He needs to find out why he abandoned him. He thinks, hopes, that in those eighteen years of total darkness there is the answer.

His search takes him to Germany, China, Africa. In the end… he realizes that not finding out the truth would have been better!

Adriano lost his memory; he doesn’t know who he is nor where he comes from. He is in prison charged with murder.

Not even this does he rememebers. And when, proven his innocence he is released from prison, his life begins again. From scratch!

Slowly he manages to rebuilt it thanks to the places and people that gradually make his memory come back. He wants to find his father, who he remembers loved him deeply and who he finds out abandoned him in a hospital after an accident. This search will lead him to find out a truth he never wanted to discover. I imagined myself free for years.

A common thought, I believe, for anyone who has to serve a sentence, although in my case it’s harder to imagine a future outside those walls. The fundamental difference between what I expect and what the others dream of lies in the fact that I have no idea of how the outside world is. I don’t remember anything about my past!

Piazzetta Paoli 2 is a journey of introspection, a novel which can easily be included in coming of age novels. The narration focuses on the path of rediscovery of the protagonist who, through his experiences, grows by finding himself and in doing so also gives food for thought to the reader, for a journey of inner enrichment.