Lthe first episode of For Elisa – The Claps case he glued in front of the TV over three million viewers. This evening Rai 1 (at 9.30 pm) will broadcast the second episode of the miniseries Marco Pontecorvotaken from the book Blood on the Altar by Tobias Jones and created with the consultancy of Claps family.
The story of the disappearance in Potenza of sixteen year old Elisa shocked Italy at the beginning of the years Ninety. The series tells the story of the family and especially of the brother Gildo who fought for years in the name of truth and justice. A man torn apart by ache who gave up a piece of his life for the love of his sister and parents: he wanted to find at least Elisa’s body so that the mother had a grave to cry on.
The Elisa Claps case: the plot of the second episode
January 1994. Four months have passed since the disappearance of Elisa Claps. The police are convinced that she did it kidnappedGildo is less so (Gianmarco Saurino), who does not abandon his obsession: Danilo Restivo (Giulio Della Monica). A ransom of 200 million lire to the family. The money is delivered, but in the blue car where it was supposed to be Elisa There is nobody. Inspector Pace follows another lead: that of child prostitution. This road will also prove to be a hole in the water.
Gildo promises himself that he will do everything to ensure that Restivo ends up in prison. The boy who had dreams together with Irene he gets sucked into the family drama. The police arrest Danilo trying to put pressure on him: in fact it turns out that he has always declared falsely regarding the day of the disappearance of Elisa: he was never on the construction site where he said he was and he never fell. How had he gotten that wound on his hand? Danilo, however, does not give in and is released. A trial begins against Restivo for false information to the PM.
The trials against Danilo Restivo and the keys to the church
The process begins. During the trial something else comes out, she is called to testify a girl to whom Danilo Restivo had cut a lock of hair on a bus. “From that day on I have never been able to get on public transport again,” confesses the young woman. But her testimony was removed. It is learned that the accused had a set of keys to the premises adjacent to the Church of the SS Trinità. Who did you get them from? At the trial he is interrogated Don Mimi (Antonio Petrocelli), one of the most disturbing figures in the series, who reveals that he does not know the accused. False!
Another one is taking place at the same time trial against Restivo. Whoever accuses him is a seeker Sabrinaa student who was bombarded with phone calls, day and night, from pornographic drawings and dirty letters. Restivo is sentenced to one year and eight months in prison for forgery. Without Elisa’s body it is not possible to try Danilo for murder. The case is closed. For the Claps it’s yet another slap in the face.
Ludovica Ciaschetti as Elisa. (Rai press office)
The Claps find no peace
The Claps family is increasingly aware that Elisa is dead. The father no longer has the strength to fight, the mother (Anna Ferruzzo) instead remains alongside the son Gildowho can’t stand not knowing the truth about his sister’s death and above all that the killer is on the loose. Organize one torchlight procession to raise awareness among the inhabitants of Potenzaasks her boyfriend Restivo’s sisterwhich is precisely the September 12, 1993 he had seen Danilo with his hand and clothes stained with blood.
Towards the end of the nineties it began to become popular Internet. Together with a friend Gildo opens a website dedicated to Elisa. One day they receive a strange email, signed by Elisa, in which she writes that she is in Brazil. This is the work of Danilo, which continues to torment the Claps. Gildo returns to TV, a Who has seen?to reopen the case. Danilo leaves for Rimini and in 2002 we see him in a house in Bournemouthin England, observing the neighbors. One of them will be his next victim.
Gianmarco Saurino and Diletta Rossi. (Rai press office)
Gildo and his love for Irene
Gildo doesn’t give up, but it is slowly destroying his life. She is completely losing the focus of her existence. Leave Irene (Rosa Diletta Rossi) out of love, she loves him too much to ruin her life: it frees her from a weight that she cannot keep on her. «Since Elisa disappeared I have understood what the important things in life are, and you are not here», she tells her. Gildo he also invents that he is having a relationship with another woman. Irene knows well that it’s not true.
The two will not see each other for a few years. She returns to Potenza on the occasion of another torchlight procession in memory of Elisa. Gildo has no intention of re-establishing a relationship with his ex. It will be the intervention of Don Marcello (Carlo De Ruggieri), friend of Irene and among the founders of Freeto open his eyes. Gildo graduates, marries Irene and together they founded the Association Penelope to help them missing people. Finally some light enters his life.
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