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Current Account: We Pay the Taxes. We Choose the Services.
Paperback
Series: Cinema Di Carta
Fiction AnthologiesGeneral LawGeneral Political Science
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 22 2026
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Have you ever thought of stopping paying your taxes? Not to keep the money - but to deposit it in a bank account and wait for the state to do its job?
Marco Ferrara, a retired factory worker from Brescia, hears on the evening news that the government has allocated four billion euros to weapons. He thinks about his urgent cardiology appointment - seven months waiting. He thinks about the neighbour who died waiting for an oncology visit. About the friend with a broken femur, attacked by a youth gang that was released the next day. About another neighbour's apartment, illegally occupied, court hearing in twenty-two months, nobody able to do anything.
He takes a squared paper sheet. He writes two columns: WHAT I HAVE GIVEN and WHAT I HAVE RECEIVED. The accounts don't balance.
The next morning he opens a bank account. Name: Civil Deposit - Public Services Suspended. He deposits his November pension: 940 euros. A young man at the billiard table photographs the sheet with the IBAN and posts it on social media. Within twenty-four hours: 280,000 views. Within a week the account holds ten million euros.
What is born is not a revolt. It is a question. Precise, documented, impossible to ignore. A question that crosses Italy, reaches Europe, and forces two presidents to shake hands with a retired man in front of six million people.
Current Account is a civil thriller about the Italy we all know - false waiting lists, youth gangs, illegally occupied homes, institutional indifference. It is the story of a man who stopped pretending. And of a country that, perhaps, has stopped waiting.
And you? How do you face this indifference?
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