POSTCARDS

From the 12th of August 1940 to the 20th of September 1945, a man sent to the woman he met one morning and then loved for the rest of his life, one postcard a day, everyday, throughout the war, the bombing, the African military campaign, the evacuation, the armistice. The 879 delivered postcards, carefully kept, tell the history of a new born love, the expectations, the fear of loss, the patience of waiting for each other but also the abyss of a Nation, the impending war, the resistance against fascism and also the faith in the private and collective happiness that came together at the end of the Second War World.

Carla Bertolini says: “I was cycling, coming back from the village with the newspaper, he followed me on his horse right until my house, and did the same the next day, and the day after. When we met, he said he was 25 years old.
In all this years he always used to justify himself: “Carlina, I only told you one lie in all my life, I was 29 and I was too ashamed of being so much older than you”.