Valeria Usala was born in Cagliari, Italy, in 1993. After a bachelor’s degree in Languages and Communication and two Erasmus experiences in the Czech Republic and Spain, he studied filmmaking at the Ateneo del Cinema in Rome and then moved to Turin to pursue a degree in Storytelling at the Holden School in 2019. For Piemme she has published La rinnegata (2021) and Nelle case degli altri (2026).
Amid rooms heavy with memory and relationships worn down by time, Valeria Usala weaves together lives that seem distant yet share the same fragile solitude. Through small gestures, the cracks of routine, and unspoken words, a young woman discovers that preserving other people’s past is not enough to build her own future. And so, just when everything seems to be falling apart, the possibility of a new beginning begins to emerge.
Without a man beside her, a woman is nothing. Teresa always heard the echo of this phrase, like the wind in the storm, but she never believed it. She who is stillness and fire, anger and tenderness, has been fighting against prejudice since she was born…
