The main character of The Vertical Line is Luigi (Valerio Mastandrea), a man who discovers he has a tumor and will need to undergo a delicate surgical operation. Through his eyes, we enter the hospital world, one of which we all more or less know the rules, but that holds extraordinary tragicomic surprises when explored more deeply.
The series concentrates mainly on the lives of the patients, not only Luigi, but also on the latter\u2019s sundry companions on this journey: an Iranian with radical beliefs, a restaurant owner who knows everything about medical science, a priest undergoing a crisis, a taciturn intellectual and dozens of senior citizens, wicked in captivity. And then there\u2019s the hospital ward staff: from the head physician professor Zamagna, famous surgeon and absolute genius, to the various other assistants who day after day work together in this microcosm separate from the ordinary world, with its own rules, hierarchies and power balances, which are put to the test on a daily basis. Here everyone is always active, involved in a struggle, each with their own means; the doctors and nurses to treat their patients, the patients to try to recover and carry on living their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1296,"template":"","production_type":[11],"genre":[],"year_production":[148],"class_list":["post-1297","production","type-production","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","production_type-tv-series"],"yoast_head":"\n