Like The Tide is the story of silent but constant journey through a cultural change for three generations of women, a story of equity and social justice through the challenge of work.

The area of the Po Delta was a poor region, bent by post Second World War disease and numerus floods. People were mainly engaged in fishing and agriculture, which, however, resulted in low income. In the late 1980s, a major crisis in the textile industry that had developed in the region further exacerbated the situation. The crash led to massive loss of jobs, especially for women, many of whom were employed in laboratories as seamstresses. In the same years as the textile industry crisis, clams were beginning to be seeded in the waters of the delta. The industry started growing and fishing for these mussels became the path to recovery for the region and the economy of the surrounding area. From that moment a revolution begins, transforming the social structure of an entire community: in a break with tradition and from the past, women, previously employed in textile factories, go out to sea and reinvent themselves in clam fishing facing a traditionally male physical effort.

Nowadays half of the fishers are women, and the profession is passed down to sons as well as daughters, who thanks to the sacrifices of mothers are now commonly included in this industry previously reserved for men.

These fisherwomen today open the path to a different and authentic femininity, an expression of a real social change: strong but not masculinized, both fierce and tender. It is a journey that lays the foundations, with sacrifice, to the possibility of a real social equality, far from gender stereotypes.

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