Avrai i miei occhi is a haunting sci-fi noir set in a dystopian Milan that mirrors our fractured present—divided, hostile, and haunted by the ghosts of progress. Nicoletta Vallorani reimagines the city as a decaying body, wrapped in crumbling walls and scarred by inequality, where the center shines and the outskirts rot.

In this dismembered metropolis, private investigator Nigredo—a former terrorist—takes on the grotesque case of a pile of mutilated female bodies dumped like refuse beyond the industrial fringe. But these are not just bodies—they're clones, things, programmed for subjugation and pain, reminders of the disturbing continuum between fascist pasts and patriarchal futures. Alongside him is Olivia, a telepath who narrates the story in second person, lovingly inhabiting Nigredo’s mind while tracing their journey through a maze of checkpoints, secrets, and silent violence.

Vallorani masterfully blends genre storytelling with philosophical depth, tackling themes like objectification, systemic misogyny, the commodification of suffering, and the illusions of neoliberal urban success. Milan—long marketed as smart and progressive—is exposed as a city built on exclusion and performance, where even public health becomes a battleground between “citizens” and the “undeserving” periphery.

But beyond the violence, Avrai i miei occhi is also a novel about resistance through sisterhood, about love unreciprocated yet fiercely generative, and about reclaiming narrative power. It’s feminist science fiction at its most urgent—where seeing through another’s eyes becomes both an act of survival and solidarity.

Nicoletta Vallorani creates a world that is eerily recognizable—where checkpoints, forgotten outskirts, and media fakery define reality. At once poetic and razor-sharp, this is speculative fiction with a revolutionary pulse.