Deruta 1472: The Alchemy of the Soul

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In a sterile future where every emotion is synthetic, the scientist Marco Rebisin makes an impossible choice: he flees back in time, seeking refuge and a glimmer of authenticity in the Deruta of 1472. To survive in this brutal and magnificent world, marked by faith and hardship, he must hide his true nature behind the mask of a humble majolica painter.

In the workshop of the proud and melancholic Maestro Giorgio, Marco finds a trade, but it is in his meeting with Lucia, the master's daughter, that he finds his true home. A woman of sharp intelligence and deep sensitivity, Lucia is the only one to perceive the abyss of loneliness behind Marco's eyes. Their love, born amidst conversations on philosophy and art, becomes his only, fragile anchor in a century that is not his own.

But Marco's talent is a light too bright to remain hidden. His skill, bordering on the miraculous, attracts the attention of the powerful lords of Umbria: the arrogant House of Baglioni and the shrewd Bishop of Perugia. Seen as a prodigy to be owned and a weapon to be used, Marco is drawn into a dangerous game of chess for power. To protect himself and the life he has come to love, he is forced to use his knowledge of the future as a weapon, transforming himself from an artist into a strategist in a game where every move could be fatal.

As he navigates the threats from these princes, a more subtle and insidious danger grows in the shadows. Fra Giacomo, the learned friar of the convent, sees in Marco not just a genius, but an anomaly, an enigma whose "unnatural" knowledge challenges the laws of God and nature. His investigation threatens to uncover not only Marco's political secrets, but his very own, impossible truth.

Forced to lie to the people he loves to protect them, and to use his futuristic mind to survive in a world of dogma, Marco must face the final question: can a man who remembers the future ever truly find peace in the past? And what is the price to be paid when your soul becomes the battlefield between two different eras?