“Spana” is the first and most famous novel by the outstanding Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Immediately after publication, the book sold an unprecedented circulation of one hundred thousand copies for Italy and was sharply criticized for “lack of spirituality.” A lawsuit was even brought against the author. Before For us, Rome during the German occupation is not the Renaissance “eternal city” that we are used to seeing it, but a city of poverty, back streets and eternally hungry teenagers who do not fit into a decent picture of life and know only one law - the law of survival.