Garlanded a trail of spirits, fluorescent lights that playing down the trails of the forest night: here it is, the picture of "THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN", a documentary directed by Carlo Hintermann Shalom, competing in the L'Altro Cinema / Extra Documentary Film Festival of Rome 2011.
The film sheds light on the condition of Xeoderma Pigmentosum , known as XP, "a rare autosomal recessive disorder of pigmentation that occurs in all races and occurs with an extreme photosensitivity to light, due to the lack of the enzyme that allows the repair of damage DNA caused by ultraviolet rays. " The disease is highly visible, manifested by pigmented spots on the face and hands, which is Presot estenfono to the whole body. Among the spots appear reddish with the lessons, the skin becomes dry, tough. The spontaneous healing narrows the mouth and gradually tends to overthrow the eyelids. Continue exacerbations mark the course of the disease usually affects children and rarely more than thirty years.
Engraved on the screen, with a childish handwriting white on black, appears the motto Hebrew: "We were taught that we must overcome their own limits, but this does not mean that we should blow up not knowing where to land " . An invitation, this quotation, to understand the creation of Camp Sundown , a camp where all young people with dall'XP gather during the summer and finally begin to live, to build relationships and socialize in their apparent shyness. The camp was created by Caren and Dan Mahar, parents of Katie , a child with XP, so that he spent a life of solitude created this mini-night companies, who will be able to grasp the positive side of this situation.
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