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On May 10, 2001, Mario Scafroglia left home and went to the nearby Brambate station to catch the train that was to take him to work. But that day his colleagues do not see him arrive...
Satirical television program aired from November 4 to December 18, 2002. The transmission was intended to shed light on a case (of course fantasy) of a missing person, Mario Scafroglia. The hypothesis was that the man had voluntarily lost track of himself, which offered in each episode new food for thought to deepen in a satirical way themes of current affairs, politics and costume, in an attempt to understand the reasons that had driven Scafroglia to flee.
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