Current Account: We Pay the Taxes. We Choose the Services. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798183729672)

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?