Dear Martian

Pif meets Giovanni Paparcuri, former collaborator of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, who promoted the transformation of their offices in the Palermo courthouse into a museum. Paparcuri talks about the days spent in the 'little bunker', showing personal belongings and professional tools, as well as revealing behind the scene details of both bitter and joyful memories.

We all know what a gondola is, but almost no-one knows what a slipway is. Pif explains to the martian, and to all of us, how to build one of the most unique boats in the world, making us meet the last remaining artisans capable of putting together something so beautiful.

How do you explain to a martian what a wedding proposal is? Pif explains one of the most amazing proposals you can ever make (or receive), telling the incredible story of a couple who should get married on the very same day of the proposal. That is, as long as he says "yes".

After meet a man who needs to decide whether to get married on the same day he has received a wedding proposal, the suspense raises: will he really get married? Here is a situation in which the martian truly understand the meaning of "holding your breath" - assuming the martian even breaths.

Pif meets the students of a very peculiar school. Through tricks and illusions, he tells us about one of the few things that can make us feel like kids in an instant: magic.

There are many places where you can work, but only one feels like home. Pif introduces a Roman to the Martian; he lives in New York, but his heart is still in the Italian capital. Together they will explore the American metropolis from a very peculiar point of view.

Pif meets three women (two lawyers and one estate agent) who managed to build the career that they so much desired, despite of many challenges along the way. To do so, though, they had to move across the ocean, to New York.

Pif's travel among Italian women in New York continues. Today he introduces three other women to the Martian; they almost randomly ended up here, and they managed to find happines in what they do. Paola organizes weddings, Giulia teaches Pilates, and Pierfrancesca has a marketing job for an Italian company.

An ancient rite celebrating the suffering and the death of Christ. Pif meets the Vattienti of Nocera Terinese, men who practice self-scourging to show their faith through pain.

How do you explain to the Martian what a butler does? Pif visits a very special place, a butler academy in the Netherlands. A flaunting place in Victorian style, where aspiring butlers learn how to take care of spaces and maintain perfect harmony.

Pif's travel in the butler academy continues. Today the aspiring butlers learn how to perfectly make a luggage, how to iron a shirt in an impeccable way, and how to set the table according to the formal etiquette.

The service ballet, a sophisticated technique used to serve food and drinks. Pif observes the butlers move together following very precise motion and gestures, as if it was a ballet choreography.

Even if we live so far away from Martians, there are some who are a bit closer to them: astronauts. Pif meets an Italian astronaut who is about to go to space for the third time, and gives him a special mission on behalf of the Martian.

How do you explain love to the Martian? Pif tries to do so by telling the story of Sara, mother of two twins who lives an extraordinary and challenging daily life.