Beyond everything, interests, controversies and so on, Adriano was certain of one thing: that the night between Saturday 31 July and Sunday 1 August 2010 he should have been inside the mothership. Now that the tragic events of Villa Brandi had also been involved, the attack that only two months earlier had taken several lives in the Brandi and Gloriani families, perhaps he was the only one that could perpetuate the lineage of his ancestors, who came from space from a very distant planet more than two millennia earlier. In fact, he did not know what could have happened to Vladimiro Brandi and his granddaughter Maria Lucia. The only survivor of the Brandi family was Alfredo but, because of the latter’s attitudes in the past, he did not have a shred of trust in him. And then it wasn’t Alfredo
