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The bank headquarters in Castelmuso had blood on their hands, but this was nothing new. The bank completely occupied the three floors of a sumptuous white marble building and was the most impressive building after the town hall. It was located on the so-called Piazza Lunga, considered to be the Condotti street of the village. The economic crisis, which they said was behind them, had closed down twenty percent of the shops in the centre.
The old manager, when the crisis broke out in 2008, was not only not sympathetic to the many customers in difficulty, but he was taken by a sort of iconoclastic fury.
The shopkeepers who had taken out mortgages and could no longer pay, saw their homes, shops, goods, dignity and, in a couple of cases, even their lives taken away.
Filippa's mother was
