With the advancement of Anglo-American forces, after the last motor truck had just left, three German officers stepped into the villa and asked for Robert.

After the carnage, they were carried away, along with a group of farmers who had been hiding in the basement seeking shelter from the bombing of the British armed forces.

After obtaining her high school diploma, and determined to bury the terrible memory in her subconscious, Lorenza moved to London.

She could not afford to pay her rent, but thanks to the sympathy of the director William Coldstream, who was impressed by her tenacity, she was accepted into the Slade School of Fine Art.

[1] Between 1952 and 1953, Mazzetti worked on her first film, K. The (unacknowledged) participation in the early stages by fellow Slade student Andrew Vicari has been described by a then-friend of both.

The film is considered to have anticipated the future Free Cinema, which in 1956 would be written down and signed by Mazzetti, Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz.

Together features the sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi and Michael Andrews as two deaf-mutes in the East End of London and was produced by the same film crew as K.[1] Together was also written by Denis Horne, but he left the production because of a disagreement with the director, who did not want to incorporate his long dialogues in the recording.

However back in Italy she became haunted by the tragic murder of her adopted family and fell into a deep depression, leading her to stay longer than originally planned.

After a long phase of treatment, and thanks to the psychotherapist Barrie Simmons, she managed to excavate the suppressed and reclaim parts of the tender, magical memories of her childhood—even if accompanied by a lot of pain.

Bertolucci declared the book a little masterpiece: he published and sent the work to the Premio Viareggio, where in 1962 Il cielo cade won first prize.

Federico Fellini compared the novel with Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca, while Henri Michaux calls it "un petit livre féroce".

The following novel Con rabbia (Rage) was published in 1963 by Garzanti: "Penny hates not only the Germans, who have murdered her family but all hypocritical philistines, who make themselves guilty each day again".

Grieco was prompted by Cesare Zavattini to accompany Lorenza to the international exhibition of the "Cinema libero di Porretta Terme".

Besides the protagonists of the Free Cinema (Lindsay Anderson, Reisz, Richardson, Richard Harris and Tom Courtenay), there were also Daisy Lumini, Marguerite Duras, Max Frisch, Malcolm McDowell, Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom, Guillaume Chpaltine, Serge Reggiani, Agnès Varda, Anouk Aimée, Achille Perilli, Piero Dorazio, Renzo Vespignani, Francesco Trombadori and, amongst others, Gian Maria Volonté, who played endless ping-pong matches with Giovanni Berlinguer.

Thanks to her prizes and the public recognition that Lorenza Mazzetti had gained in the meantime, she was offered a collaboration with the magazine Vie Nuove (where Pier Paolo Pasolini was also writing at the time) by the Partito Comunista.

Unfortunately, this venture was judged as too risky by the communist party—meaning that Lorenza had to renounce any hope of working with Italian broadcasting station Rai, even though a minor collaboration had already started there.

The exhibition was shown in several cities: in Rome, in the Complesso San Michele, the seat of the "Beni Culturali", where it was visited over three months by schoolchildren; in Florence, in the Palazzo Medici; in Porretta Terme (BO), and in Mantova and in Dresden, where it was organised by the Italian Consulate together with the Jewish Community and the University Dresden.

Furthermore, Diario Londinese is a kind of prequel in which Mazzetti describes the beginnings of the Free Cinema and also the Angry Young Men.

Diario Londinese was presented for the first time in Rome by the "Casa del Cinema di Roma", by Irene Bignardi and Antonio Gnoli.

She wanted to talk with young people in order to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, by the example of the tragedy of the Einstein family, a massacre that would have been kept a secret if not for her book.