Giovanni Plastics
by Daniel Guy (dedicated to Helene) Part 1 Roberta is Italian and gorgeous and slim, and after graduating from art school, she finds herself working in Milan, in the marketing department of Giovanni Plastics. All the young men working in the factory downstairs from her office queue up to try to seduce her but she brushes them off with distain and a miserable stare because in her heart Giovanni Plastics is the last place on earth she wants to be. The factory is grey and immense, situated in the ugly industrial part of the city. Roberta longs to live in a world infinitely more exotic and beautiful than a factory producing nothing but plastic bags and plastic sheeting. One night she is working late on a new marketing campaign and apart from the security guards she’s the only one left in the entire building. As dusk descends, she stands silhouetted in the solitary light from her fifth floor office window, and looks out at the vast empty car park. She sees a car