Worried, Zerocalcare’s mother asks her offspring: “I don’t understand why at 40 you still haven’t started life? You know I don’t judge you, you can do whatever you want, I just ask you one thing… To be happy. » At these words, the heart of Paolo, an accountant, in his thirties, sinks. In Centocelle, a working-class neighborhood in the east of Rome, he attends an open-air screening of the last four episodes of For a Penny, the Zerocalcare series released on May 27 on Netflix. “It’s typically an argument that I could have with my mother,” he quips, before continuing: “Zerocalcare tells very well the problem of our generation who had difficulty leaving home with their parents, to get involved, to have plans for the future. »
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