10 Ottobre

In a world where inequality, poverty, and disease have been eradicated, a single law governs all: the regulation of death. Every human is born as a laboratory product with an expiration date encoded in their DNA. There are six possible age limits, and no one knows their own. Richie is a boy approaching his eleventh birthday — October 10th — the date that may mark his end. Living under the shadow of this sentence, he navigates a society that has traded freedom for perfection. But when he encounters a mysterious group of rebels who remember what everyone else has forgotten, Richie faces a choice: accept the system or fight for the right to live on his own terms. Created by Paola Barbato and illustrated by Mattia Surroz for Bonelli's Audace label, 10 Ottobre is a dystopian tale that questions the price of a world without suffering — and whether a life with an expiration date can truly be called life at all.