It’s a feeling many of us go through, especially during our formative years: boredom, aloneness, feeling like the world is too big and our own space too small. We’re confined to school, to our home town; we walk listlessly, we sit sullenly, we look for some mischief to make the devil’s work of idle hands or we simply spend our time daydreaming, taking ourselves off…

Think about it – a bird in a cage lives a rather dilemmatic life. Her world inside the constraints of the wrought-iron rods is poles apart from what’s outside. Every passer-by looks inside the cage in awe and flatters the bird for her beauty, voice and courage, but they forget how her life within is painstakingly forceful. In this editorial, lensed by Francesco Trombetti, the…