“The suburbs was completely deserted, there was only one man, the postman named Gramadoro. He lived there for a few hours a day and was in charge of collecting the mail from the Fiumicino Post Office and distributing it to the workers of l'Aquila and the guardians of the nearby Castel Fusano pine forest. Its greeting to the labourers arriving in droves was - you wretches, you have come to die- ". Infernetto is an investigation into the district of the same name inhabited by the author. It is a suburban area of Rome, which emerged spontaneously at the end of the 1950s and now has around 40,000 inhabitants. It is a marginal area: geographically it is far from the centre and its surface is totally located on the side of the Via Cristoforo Colombo that extends to the sea. In its time it was a place of opportunity for those who could not afford a house in the city, or for those who wanted to be in nature or for the "boehmians" of the time who spent their holidays or parties with friends here, "it was a paradise in hell" comments Mrs Rosa, a pioneer of Infernetto. Despite lacking all basic services, the first inhabitants remember it as a place of sharing, carefreeness and cooperation. Over the years, the land has been raped by successive administrations and the landscape has changed and become unrecognisable, especially for the pioneers who no longer find the human relationships that were the basis of their daily life. Infernetto is urbanistically divided within itself, it is separated from the rest, it is far from everything, even from itself. The neighbourhood seems frozen, the people absent or shy. A feeling of suspension where nothing ever happens.