“Sicily is a magic place above all for us Italians of the north, who live in fog and dream of the sea. It is the place of art, of food, of culture, of untouched nature, but it is also a land of contradictions, of speculation and of overbearing. It is the contrast that has always held me: past against present, beautiful against ugly, true against false — and for those of us who come from far away that contrast takes on a positive, almost fascinating cast, as if the light itself.”