The question is: if freedom has affinity with incompleteness, discomfort, uneasiness, why would anyone be interested in pursuing it? The million-dollar question does not really have a straight answer, of course. But a rather paradoxical one. It turns out, for whatever reason, that the incompleteness that the quest for freedom requires can also bring great relief for the natural pain of living. Well, to put it in a better way: it’s probably the only effective relief a person can find.

What is the sense of a mission?
Starting with Albert Camus - his novel The Stranger and his idea of The Rebel - we will explore why it is vital to be a stranger to ourselves to embrace a mission: accept, at a metalevel, this leap of faith, a trick of mind to identify and share a common direction so that single individuals can contribute to control the direction of something they are just part of.
One episode of the famous series The Office, by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, then adapted for American television by Greg Daniels, will show what interesting core all missions share and why it is important to use them with a grain of salt.
In the end, we will hear Carlo Ancelotti, one of the most succesfull football coaches, speaking about quiet leadership: how embracing a mission is always about playing a game, swinging between illusion and reality - believing in a goal but always being strangers to it. Enjoying the ride.

With Blazing Saddles, the cult movie from Mel Brooks, we will start to roam around sedentary and migratory nature of the human beings, discussing the wicked thoughts of the people of the land - those who decide to stay and fight against those workers who are wandering around and happened to be the real builders of their cities.
Joseph Brodsky, the great Russian and American poet, will help us discuss about the condition we call exile, the role that language plays in it, how it teaches people humility. And how a free man blames no one, when he fails.

Starting from Orson Welles playing former Nazi hiding in Connecticut in "The Stranger", we will roam around roots, religions and the sense of belonging in "The Yada Yada" episode of the comedy series Seinfeld. Elie Wiesel will close with few words about useless answers and extraordinary questions.

The walk of the Stranger starts with Sophocles and Antigone's struggle to combine city and foreigners and moves towards French-Italian comedy film directed by Christian-Jaque, "The Law is the Law".