Il ritorno di Emiliano - a podcast by Cities and Memory

Cimitero Verano in Rome reimagined by Leon Muraglia.



"Emiliano rushed home after making the recording. It was his turn to make dinner and his girlfriend was due home just after 5. The bus was a bit late so he just made it before she got home. After dinner, they talked about how their days had gone and watched a film. Emiliano then prepared his books for the next day. It was then that Emiliano realised he had mislaid his glasses. But where? He needed them the next day for lectures. 



"He searched the whole flat before realising that he must have left them at the cemetery. They would be easy to find, as he had stood next to a wall. Of course! He had taken them off to focus on the screen on his audio recorder and put them on top of the waist-high wall whilst he recorded. 25mins later, he was at the site. After jumping the wall, he was in the pitch-black of the cemetery. An oasis of darkness in the city centre. Feeling uneasy, he felt along the wall for his glasses, but found nothing. Where could they be? He kept searching, with only the light from his mobile phone. Colder, uneasier now, he kept stretching out in the black. Suddenly..."