Alissar Caracalla, Director of the Orientalist Dance Company and Caracalla School of Dance, Lebanon; Marta Luisa Fagnani, Mother Superior of the Trappist Monastery in Azeir, Syria; Roger Wawa, Director of Radio Maria Congo. Moderated by Bernhard Scholz, President of the Fondazione Meeting per l’amicizia fra i popoli ETS.

There are places deeply marked by violence, illness, and suffering that seem to be without hope. Occasionally, they appear on our screens when particularly atrocious acts or devastating catastrophes come to light, only to fade away into oblivion. Yet, it is precisely in these abandoned places that we find people who refuse to be defined by even the harshest conditions but live with the certainty of an unconditional friendship capable of sowing seeds of hope in the deserts of inhumanity.