[Alberto is such a perplexing child in many ways. Pepa continues to chalk it up to being quirky. And having a pretty... unique childhood? She has questions about his parents... instead she gives him a puzzled smile.]

When I was little I used to find them scary. The rats. When Bruno first started picking them up. I didn't like them. But over time they have grown on me. They are cute. In their own way.

[An interesting day following a mouse a bird dropped... she decides to start with;]

So you grew up in Portorosso you said? What was it like?