Overview
- Across four episodes, Ranieri plays Eugenia Liguori, a new headteacher who works to rebuild a battered school and personally urges truants to return.
- Conceived by Luca Zingaretti, the series is co-written and co-produced through Zocotoco with Bibi Film in collaboration with Rai Fiction, and directed by Luca Miniero.
- The storyline is freely inspired by Carfora’s work in Caivano, with the school set in a Naples area described as one of Europe’s largest drug markets.
- Ranieri says she wore a blonde wig and acted in Neapolitan to approximate Carfora’s movements and expressiveness.
- Eugenia Carfora praises perseverance, calling every student recovered a societal victory, and she proposes extending compulsory schooling to age 18.