[00:00–00:16]
[The video opens with views of the Sardinian mountains. Veronica Ruggieri and Chiara Borda are inside an Opel Frontera.]
[00:17]
Veronica: Welcome to Sardinia, Chiara.
[00:20]
Chiara: Thank you.
[00:20]
Veronica: Did you bring your swimsuit?
[00:22]
Chiara: Of course, obviously.
[00:23]
Veronica: Well, you’ll be leaving it in your suitcase today, because we’re going up into the mountains.
[00:27]
Chiara: The exact opposite, okay.
[00:29]
Chiara: What are we going to do?
[00:29]
Veronica: You’ll see.
[00:34–00:44]
[We see the rocky landscape and the car continuing along the road. The car stops, the girls get out, and they find some quad bikes waiting for them.]
[00:45]
Veronica: Here we are! Hi, Elia!
[00:46]
Elia: Hi, girls! Welcome.
[00:47]
Chiara: This is so cool! Where are you taking us?
[00:49]
Elia: I’m taking you for a quad bike ride. Everything’s ready. This one’s yours, Veronica.
[00:53]
Veronica: Great.
[00:54]
Elia: And this one’s yours, Chiara. Come on, let’s go have some fun!
[00:59]
Veronica: Are you ready?
[01:01]
Chiara: I can’t wait.
[01:02–01:19]
[The girls put on their helmets, each gets on a quad bike, and they start the engines. In the following scenes, we see them riding their quad bikes along dirt roads through the woods.]
[01:20]
Veronica: What’s your relationship with motors like after the accident?
[01:23]
Chiara: It’s good now. They give me a great sense of freedom. But there was definitely a time in my life when they terrified me. I had an accident in which I lost a leg, and it was a very traumatic experience.
[01:34]
Veronica: What was your first reaction?
[01:37]
Chiara: I was afraid of finding myself in a black hole, without enough information to find my way out. That lasted until I eventually realised that my life had simply changed, not gotten worse.
[01:48]
Veronica: Did your relationship with your body change at that point?
[01:51]
Chiara: Yes, and at a very particular age, too. For two months, I did everything I could to avoid seeing my reflection. Then I realised that no one would teach me to love my body unless it started with me. Above all, I began to change my perspective and see that everything that made me different, my prosthesis and my scars, was actually what made me unique. In a way, they told my story and said something about who I am.
[02:21]
Veronica: Does it bother you when people talk about limitations?
[02:24]
Chiara: Yes. I think talking about limitations is a bit cliché, because whatever you do, it’s all one continuous experiment. Skateboarding really taught me that, because I definitely faced difficulties that other people didn’t have. Instead of letting those difficulties stop me, I had to find my own way of doing those things. I think it’s wrong to settle into thinking, “I can’t do it, I can’t manage it, I can’t do that.” I’d rather give it a try, hit a few walls and fall down, but at least be able to say I tried.
