“At first there is a screech of tires on the asphalt, a bump in the air, the sound of a car horn, and soon after that what sounds like the concert of a jackhammer. The student looks up from the newspaper and turns in the direction from which that din is coming. What happens at 9:02 a.m. on March 16, 1978, continues to happen.”

3 minutes that changed Italian history, 3 minutes that are obsessively repeated, narrated through a prism si different approaches and points of view. A fragment of time that runs from 9:02 a.m. to 9:05 a.m. on Thursday, March 16, 1978, in Via Fanti in Rome: the Brigatist ambush in which Christian Democrat President Aldo Moro was kidnapped and his escort of five agents “annihilated” with machine-gun fire. The Unarmed God explores many resonances of that tragic event by declining it in the poetic idea of a “traumatic realism.”

«Proposing a cure through a narrative gesture for that wound investigated in dozens of books, films and thousands of pages of court documents, is a gamble that Pomella faces with a rich array of tones that confirm both his qualities as a storyteller and the difficulty in squeezing his works into the label of the novel» (Alessandro Beretta, La lettura).