In the heart of Italy, a news story has touched the deepest chords of the collective soul: the story of the “grandmother who escaped from the RSA to see the sea again”. A simple but powerful desire that triggered a wave of national emotion.
Intrepid despite her 81 years of age. She is an elderly woman who decided to escape from the retirement home in Faenza, where she had been spending her old days for some time. Run away to go where? At the seaside, in Rimini. And she, moreover, in the same hotel where she remembered having stayed for many summers when she was a girl.
The old woman, guest in a retirement home in Faenzain the province of Ravenna, managed to get away from the structure, reach the train station and get on the train leaving for Rimini.
Arrived at destination, he looked for the hotel of his memories but found it closed. The owners of the facility, recognizing her, nevertheless approached her to greet her and recommended another hotel they trusted.
However, the beach and the sea were her most desired destinations and so the grandmother decided to ask for help in a church, where the parish priest welcomed her, spoke to her and then called the police.
The woman explained to the men in uniform that she could no longer stand life inside the RSA, “especially for the quality of the food”, as she herself said. She was then examined to ensure that she had not suffered mistreatment in the retirement home from which she had fled.
Having verified that it was indeed an escape driven solely by nostalgia, the old lady was brought back to where she had started. And now the sea, the beach, Rimini and the images of youth, he will only be able to see them again in her dreams.
