This title combines the gripping true crime case of a 16-year-old girl named Elisa Claps with Jones's deep understanding of Italian culture - the impunity it offers to the powerful.

When the author first travelled to Italy, he expected to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors and famous writers. This title explores Italy's familiar delights (art, climate, cuisine), and the livelier and stranger sides of the bel paese: language, football, Catholicism, cinema, television and terrorism.

Why is it that the more advanced our society becomes, the unhappier we are?
Seeking an answer from the only honest perspective, Tobias Jones and his wife opened up their family home and ten acre woodland to those going through crises in their lives, or suffering from depression, addiction and loneliness.
They will encounter extraordinary people: from 'Roadkill Kev' to 'Mary Poppins'; build a chapel, raise pigs and encounter both violent antagonism and astounding generosity. At the same time, they will open themselves, their children and their ideals up to the most demanding of...

An exploration of the dark side of football, of Italy and of far right politics and organised crime: the hard core fans known as the ultras.