Mirabella – Sindelfingen

Mirabella Imbaccari is a village near Catania, in the heart of Sicily, with an antiquated agriculture. Only 4 000 of the official 10 000 inhabitants live there on a regular basis, hopelessly lost in the European periphery. 2000 km north: Sindelfingen, near Stuttgart, one of the most powerful economic areas in the whole of Europe. A regular bus service links these two towns, since most of the 6 000 people missing from Mirabella live in the Sindelfingen area, where they have been working at the Mercedes factory since the 50s. Three generations later, we discover an absurd, ambivalent situation. They remain too closely linked to Sicily for a new identity to emerge, yet too far away to turn back. These Mirabellians are wandering somewhere in between.