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A story set in Sicily, the story of an emigration from the north of Italy to the south. A union officer loses his job because of an accident and decides to go back to Sicily with his family. Hence he loses his prestige in his family and authority over his son. He is no longer his point of reference. The son decides to hit the road.

If emigration to the north can be a source of pain, return can be often a descent into hell. Humiliation and a sense of loss, inevitable and fatal events lead his child to become a criminal, a collector of protection money on behalf of a local boss.

The story is narrated by the child and this allows the reader to enter this underground world through the door of discomfort. It also allows to show the anger and the tenderness with which the author looks at this world. The title,

The Isle of Dogs, is the name of a rock in front of the seafront east of the island of Ortigia. Different stories are told about its name. It seems that local people threw litters of dogs from the terrace overlooking the seafront of Ortigia. The short distance allowed the pups to reach the cliff and hope for salvation, thwarted by the poor chances of finding food.

The story is rough, poetic and real and appears to be the result of many failures, the ones that we see every day, from politics,the unions, school, or family.