It is a day in mid-November 1961 when Franco Basaglia enters a mental asylum for the first time. It is the psychiatric hospital of Gorizia, on the easternmost edge of Italy, and one of its walls coincides with the border: on the other side is Yugoslavia, we are in the midst of the Cold War. Among the hundreds of people hospitalized, many are of Slovenian origin and one of the first tasks that the new director sets himself is to find interpreters to overcome the language barrier and communicate with them, even with those who have not spoken for years. In this symbolic place (where a revolution in psychiatry will begin) a border divides the states and languages, but...