In one of the last posts written on Instagram, Alessia Piperno - the Roman stop in Iran on 28 September last - told of the street demonstrations and how one day two women, two men and two children arrived in her hostel to ask them for help, frightened from the clashes.
"I don't think I'll ever forget that first night - her words -. We ran to the hostel with our hearts in our throats, while the sounds of gunfire boomed behind us and the smell of gas wafted into the air."
"I closed the door of the hostel while people were screaming in the streets - he continues -.
After less than 30 seconds I heard a violent knock on the door of the hostel. There were two women, two men and two children.
They coughed sharply from breathing in the gas, and the older woman had an asthma and panic attack.
'Milk, milk'.
They screamed.
As I passed him a glass of water.
In those seconds it seemed to me that I didn't understand anything.
The chaos had followed me inside those walls. "The story ends with the drawing made by a little girl on Alessia's mobile phone in those moments of terror." She has drawn a house-she concludes-.
She didn't speak English, yet when she drew that sun, she said 'Sun' to me.
Sun, you told me ".
