Synopsis

On the deck of the Capitan Cerano, the picaresque sailor Giovanni tells his unfortunate executioner how he came to stand before the noose that in a few hours will make him shark food. Thus unfolds the story of a life spent amid thefts, deceptions, brawls, and more or less stormy marriages, sailing increasingly remote routes, faithful only to his own rebellious spirit, only recently tamed by the prophecy of a defrocked priest who persists in seeing him as a new Baptist. With this belated debut, suspended between the magical realism of the great South American storytellers and a ragged and affectionate Corto Maltese, Lucio Di Cicco has written a deeply human and passionate novel of sails and redemption.