In the landscape of Italian writers and intellectuals active in the 20th century, Roberto Roversi was one of the few treating his life as the manifesto of his cultural and political choices, staying in the shadows so he could act in complete autonomy from the cultural industry.
The staging of his unpublished text “La macchia d’inchiostro” by a group of young amateur theater group, becomes a unique occasion to look into his “stained” public figure.
Behind simple stereotypes, lies the man’s constant activity, a poet who dedicated his whole life to the search for alternative, free and independent ways to create culture.