Giovanni is almost 90 years old and has a very clear mind. In particular, he has one thing clear: that he doesn't want to go to institute. He repeated it to everyone also to always repeat it to himself. The future certainly worried him. He was in good health but he had no relatives, only a kind neighbor who did his shopping and other errands. And that he always rewarded. His house was very well organized but on the third floor without a lift it had become difficult for him to go out. One day a small hole in the backyard was fatal to him. He fell and fractured his femur.

Thus he began a journey that he had always feared. The neighbor who goes to visit him confides in him her worries about returning home: she couldn't have helped him more than she did. She also speaks to the doctors and the social worker at the hospital, explaining that she can do very little and then there is also the problem of managing the pension, household expenses and everything else and he has no one. For this reason the services decide to immediately make a request for a support administrator. Not that Giovanni wasn't able to decide how to manage his money and future but he is a 90 year old man and the simplest thing, in the absence of a relative, seems to be to entrust him to an institutional figure.

Meanwhile, once the acute phase has passed, they also decide to transfer him to another facility. Not exactly rehabilitation because he is an elderly person, he will go to post-acute rehabilitation: lower intensity of rehabilitation care. So he only does a few minutes of rehabilitation a day and then he spends the rest of the hours in bed: no one gets him up. It is easy to imagine how this rehabilitation does not help him to significantly recover his motor skills.

One day a doctor from the facility approaches his bed and explains to him that it was preferable for him to continue his treatment by moving to another facility a little outside Rome, but very good, towards Velletri. For the transfer he would have had to sign the form that she insistently handed to him: "here he must sign here".

Giovanni hesitates, he doesn't understand, he would like to talk about his future to prepare for his return home, he would like to have explanations about his health conditions, ask why he still isn't walking... and many other things: in short he would like to talk to someone. But time has now run out for him, the doctor is in a hurry and has already started to turn to another patient. He can only say: but I would like to go home. The doctor looks at him with a pitiful look that suggests that he was rambling: "Of course he has to stay here now." Giovanni finally signs, without knowing what it was about. He had given consent for a transfer to an RSA. After that signature, months pass without anyone explaining anything to him anymore. He expects to continue the rehabilitation treatments but every day for some reason they are postponed. One day a stranger shows up near his bed: good morning, I'm the lawyer Bianchi, I have been appointed as his support administrator. I will take care of his pension and what she needs.

Giovanni begins to see a way out. “Well I would like to go home I've already been here for 5 months”. The lawyer responds without room for replies: “It's still too early to go out, we'll talk about it again. In the meantime, I will take care of paying the fees for this institute. We will see. I will return to visit her when I can because it is far from Rome here.” Giovanni asks to have a sum of money available because he has nothing with him and he might need something. The lawyer's response is even more lapidary: "But what are you supposed to do here with the money? You don't lack anything, they take care of everything." Giovanni is still waiting for someone to explain to him why he has to stay in there.