During the pandemic, Anita worked for a local government office in South Tyrol in northern Italy. “I’m originally from Australia, but moved to Italy in 2010 for my husband’s job as a university professor,” she says. “We had been living with our children in a village called St Michael since 2019. I was working in the residency permits office, and when Covid hit I continued to go into my workplace because I had to see people in person,” she says.
From her office window, she noticed an elegant Italian gentleman who always wore a hat and carried a cane. “I remember he had these beautiful polished shoes too. I saw him all the time but never knew who he was.”
