Over the past year, seven Neapolitan writers known as ‘I Nisidiani’ (Viola Ardone, Riccardo Brun, Maurizio de Giovanni, Daniela De Crescenzo, Antonio Menna, Valeria Parrella and Patrizia Rinaldi) have written a novel as part of a prison-based writing workshop which, amongst other things, changes both the authors and the young prisoners forever.