In an interview with news.italy24.press, when asked about the core of the work, Colasanti said, “A particular moment in Akhmatova’s life: the imprisonment of her son, who had been unjustly condemned only for the surname he bore (his father had been killed by the regime, ed). Anna goes to the Leningrad prison for 17 months and meets other mothers of prisoners, of whom she will become her voice, also due to the explicit request of the other women to transform this dramatic experience into poetry.”