Skeletons

Status: OnGoing

Eighteen years old, and a bulky lie: Zero tells his mother every morning that he goes to university, but in reality he spends five hours sitting on the subway, from terminus to terminus. This is how he meets Arloc, a boy a little younger than him who has other reasons for wanting to waste his days in a subway car in Rome. As their friendship deepens, the shadows in Arloc's life and psyche merge with the darkness of the drug-dealing world of suburban Rome. A graphic novel that Zerocalcare defines as "more heinous than usual" straddling reality and invention, between today and twenty years ago, between fear of the future and that of the present.