In 1935, Carlo Levi is exiled to the south of Italy to a remote and rural small town as a political prisoner. He is punished for his anti-fascist views and especially for his activism against the war against Ethiopia. He is a doctor by trade, an artist by spirit, and an intellectual by design, and so in the small town he stands out on all three fronts. When he first gets there, he realizes immediately that the inherited medical practice of the town’s only doctor […]