What am I doing here
Nino De Masi: a life held hostage
S1 • E7 May 14, 2019
There are prisons without bars. Prisons where you are locked up even if you have done nothing wrong. Chains that others put on our wrists to prevent us from moving, to subjugate us. Can you be free in a territory besieged by the 'Ndrangheta? "You make life choices because you want to delude yourself into thinking you are a free man. And in the name of that illusion, you lose your material freedom because, of course, I cannot be free like everyone else," says Nino De Masi, an entrepreneur from Gioia Tauro, who has been threatened, obstructed, and isolated in Calabria. For this reason, he has been living with his family under police protection for over six years, and his company is guarded by the army. This is a stark testimony to how this terrible deprivation of freedom has not prevented De Masi from continuing to dream of a better future for himself and his homeland.