A neo is the unofficial king of the nativities scene makers fans of his work come from all over italy to get a photo with him. His mama also known as propecia or little dolls can hardly believe she spent fifty years packing up the Three Wise Men and other figurines. Meanwhile marcos nephew davida wonders how hes going to paint two dozen masks for the pooch another figurine by the seating but his other uncle says you have to pull out all the stops for the customers you know this is pushing the symbol of naples. That marco even has the edge on publicize the stunts were going to spend a few days or you know and his Family College bag out i think all that clear up more joy tonight we want to see how they cope with the prechristian a stress on vs im going to go radio out of may know. The orders are coming thick and fast the christmas rush is intense but marco is the epitome of calm. Marco is working on an order fifteen lots of jesus mary and joseph they are all supposed to be identical. Cousin luca is giving new cribs a quick trim its not exactly a fine art. Of each all the same which on the money you. But just when things threaten to get boring beyond joel and rico are there to boost flagging spirits in the last eighteen days before christmas they work their way through son craig oriel our man no giving a blessing to the artist since. Were not im one of the shoot him of the state of the art. But a Christmas Carols and Conveyor Belt cribs are yesterdays news for many of us. Theyre more interested in star power than going to war with the teams is it the royals Fairless Kone and so feel the random she wants visited marco in person so did poverty Opera Singers t. V. And football stars are a booming business if only his family could keep up. But i have a president now that i. Love my work around the clock i cook on the mama i was a wife i do it all anything else but. Full steam ahead and the moneys pouring in three days before christmas the number of last minute orders are mounting including ones from customers who want to have themselves modeled in terra cotta. The latest project a tie in celebrity chef rubio was brought to bear to her mother to her the proud of her. Marcos cousin luke also needs to pull out all the stops all all. All. All the man with tattoos has his own remedy for coping with the christmas stress that. Gets hot although only a month old. Mission him. His job is to make all the tiny glass eyes in marcos figurines. You. Know what ive done nothing but class size for fourteen years. In a book the. Single coolest thing and i like it i have eyes everywhere eyes are symbolic of everything i do ive got loads eyes here eyes there eyes everywhere i feel that loss and. The figurines used in the name of politan nativities scenes are called puss story the word actually means shepherd but in naples it refers to any figurine. Its a centuries old craft that also provides a good story for photojournalists in the run up to Christmas Young artists like juji look good in the papers shes learning the traditional handcraft from marco. A lot thats the i mean if i think that about the head is made of terra cotta out with glass eyes which look a mix of the hands and feet or wouldnt the body has a flexible iron skeleton covered with hemp is that for most warm or they dont have the proportions are based on leonardo da vincis famous drawing you know she was so you have exactly the same distance between the outstretched arms and between the head and feet forty centimeters each way. For to and for. Very good and so marco is the great story artist the theater director if you like but where is his stage. Coach and ella says we can find a stage builder just around the corner the first alley on the left by the oriental negativity seen with its onion domes and camels and. Then right back to the loneliest corner of the old convent. Santa magellan a sunday jewel daily but i. Artisan mario says the nuns gave him this little cage as a workshop no one really knows whether thats actually true. With just three days to go until christmas hes not having a good time the main fuse keeps popping out with the patience of a saint he goes over and pushes it back in umpteen times a day. His Guardian Angels have never let him down yet his business still stands mario says making nativities scenes is a service to god but chained up with stuff through everything. At karri things ok again all over. The backdrops that he creates for nativities scenes look pretty wild mario says thats because before christ came the whole world was in spiritual ruins it seems a little over the top but without the press epic as locals call their nativities scenes naples wouldnt be naples and mario wouldnt be mario you know in my unit up and its very difficult its as if i were communicating directly with the nativity scene its a real journey of the imagination how does he oh. Yeah. Michael has no time for imaginary journeys or communicating with his figurines his nephew debby did needs to make a delivery. So you collect two hundred euros off you go. I tend to repeat it says on the right pressure ok. Three zero zero zero. Thats it. Im on it no thats not and you the one i wanted had different wings and no thats the right one. They dont look quite beautiful does not know what they look at it could have a bit more color. That wasnt my job signora i didnt even know it was an angel. Good paying customers in pussy to pull the wealthy district of naples can sometimes be difficult. Mario our other nativities he maker is also earning a few extra euros here before christmas. To top it still. Hes come to teach the children how to build a need to be seen michael so all they think of this one. In the dark with the little fellow the man but tell me do you like building a pivot he seems to. Me you know one well that was clear enough but while the plastic container is ok for the children it all seems a little antiquated. To one of them what do you think maria will it be a Virtual Press if you want a electronic nativity what hows that men with escalators and all kinds of electronic things dont you get. No no no no no press says he will always be the same. Throwing him out of cork and word for all eternity as tradition dictates we wouldnt want to see the Three Wise Men with cell phones now what the of course we were there they followed the star of bethlehem thats what led them to christs birth place. I doubt theyd have navvies then but. It was easier when i was here. Marios one concession to the twenty First Century through a small motorized pump for the front. And back of the vs and gregorio out of me no its been a long hard day in the workshops but naples is far from settling down for the night. Out oh. Oh oh oh. Oh. Town. Hall. Marcos nephew whos a fan of you ventus tour and a cardinal sin in naples is going out. And just going out with a couple of friends ok who he has been a t. Shirt too thin for winter want to tell it was somebody. With spine mom and she took in the car only a moped he had just one thing with a quad momento drive too fast. To cool young hip hoppers meet in front of the negativity slowly it could only happen in naples. At the other end of the city some other hip hop fans are dancing at home. Luka the glass eye specialist isnt just a fan of the music he also wraps himself. In the. Story. Was once a rebel teenager on the wild streets of naples now he has a job wife and family but hes still married to his music. And affection i only make protest music im not interested in making money or a profit or you can go to my house and. Look as long standing friend ana is his rap partner welcome even though hes really a nice place that needs to be more from a hot start again. And that. Both of them have one great hero a hip hop legend from new york. Like many young people in naples two packs a cooler med and early death right. Since and he was a man of the streets none of us are saints and yes evil socalled is somehow appealing to me but i try to do good things even if i look mean and ugly im actually a nice guy at home with my family im passing on the values of christmas and good neapolitan tradition. Looka is clearly a rapper with a big heart. And even divvied up surrounded by women and reveling in the naples nightlife insists that the native any figurines in the Family Business is more important to him than the bars even if his friends think hes crazy. Thats so one of his cousins who is out with him asks him why hes doing a job like that at his age whats the point he asks with him thats good for you what its about going to tell you whats important to me is carrying on my family name i really mean it even though im young and happy to hang out with you and the others im willing to make sacrifices even if its hard to get up in the morning ill still go to the workshop you go. To. A new day dawns in naples. Jury room is. Youll be she moved this. Piece through. The. Roof. The room in some streets even have their own nativities seen the madonna on this one was found in the garbage with bullet holes through her body no one knows why but she was lovingly restored to her proper place. That i she put in. Over us marco is still in bed but he cant stay there much longer he has to open the shop. With only two days to go until christmas. Theres just enough time to replace his bed cap with a woolly one. For. His mother and a picked up by. Marc own lives in the same building. Local will also need to leave soon the glasseye expert hip hopper and devoted daddy says in the end it all comes down to one thing the worst of it imo its all for love and well out of the law your love for a woman for yourself. Here sweetheart take this. I want to love us have a love is the most important thing in life without love you have no life and if you have no life you cant move forward thats just how it is. So what are its. The gall the wars are keen to shift our. Its not the money and its not even the precept the or the pastoring the need to the scenes and the figurines that draw marco and all the others to sun gregorio art may know each morning. Its not the fame or all the popes that marco has met. There in the pantheon to be sure you dont theres not enough protein or sophia loren its for the family and more than anyone else for marcos father. We so this is me at the age of six. Zero a store im catching my dad he was such an important person everyones dad means a lot to them but i think my dad was just that little bit more important to me before than. Marcos father died a few years ago his widow ana still misses him every day he built an altar to st antonino above the shop door. Is going to see julian every year on june the thirteenth anniversary of scent antoninus death if we bake bread for the poor people of the city for these days theres hardly anyone who goes hungry but we still do it just in memory of my husband whos happy for. That we have to make a nice statue every yeah its so beautiful it keeps getting stolen by the. Marcos father giuseppi inherited the shop from his own father now marco is the one in charge. Well you know most of you know. Marco is Something Like a father to luka even if they both make jokes about their relationship so were not just cousins we have the same haircut. The same haircut maybe but not the same head because what is your head and something i think. Lets just say there was a time when i had to bring this boy back on to the straight and narrow. But i had a few problems that i passed. On bodybuilding. Injured a guy one time but actually he was the one who was trying to attack me then twenty years ago i was only a little gun. Actually it was two thousand and one that was huge a mammoth of a guy and a rugby player and i got. And there was this girl that i lied but he wasnt happy about it. He told me not to turn up at our school but i went anyway so we had this fight and i really gave it to him it was so bad that i was arrested and locked up when i came out marco gave me this job and here we are. Here in my famous rehab center. By nine am everyones out and about except for one. That. The man who said to take over marcos rehab Center One Day has overslept orange juice is not enough they will need some stronger drugs. Its. Not. A good what time do you call this. Oh yes this am i if it was late or so what is the very latest. You know youre always late its not on going area other lodging both from now on for every minute that you arrive too late you stay for three minutes longer in the evening the rest of it people. Its now the morning of Christmas Eve his mother another annamaria is doing some last minute shopping she knows everyone around here and they own love her. Car all the jewelry jewelry. On that task while they say the little seashells a good communicator got it. Bananas seafood walnuts just time for a chat with green grocer from call animal rhea is a proud mom. Mom is a devotee works from so he always has on a tip of it will follow you as a media juice in the family always says mama thats my job i said but after my son carry on. But today davida isnt working on any nativities scenes marco has sent him out on deliveries again. Two hours before the shops close some gregorio are may know is in party mood. All right. But. Let me know what you marco can hardly move for the customers. In the. In the pickle neapolitan is the customer who turns up on the last day when does he notice it needs one when hes laying the table. Its the same with presents at six pm you find people here looking for last minute gifts on Christmas Eve diverge on a boom bust. But mario shop is not running so well. On Christmas Eve normally one of the busiest days of the year hes hardly sold anything mario goes home. Even pulled janetta has earned more than him today. And just as davida has finally got round to painting his put yellows another traditional neapolitan character comes breezing in. The man who said to drive out evil spirits. Show show it you sure you want to. Go over what weve in since and incantations follow the saying goes that in naples everyones born an actor and those who dont make it into the theater find their own stage show or show youre sure. Its nearly closing time while marco tries to help his last customer find the right gift juji his puppet maker is busy practicing her speech for tonights Christmas Party shes got quite an audience. And she said to. Judy is nervous and marcos team arent helping its only because. Well maybe shed out there are here i am again just like last year our job is to make a story and nothing is by chunks we dont just work to get it for me this is one big family and marker the comedian is staring out ship kisses from a. Judy should be allowed so by she. Was. Already knows that oh nah im. Five out of. June. With the busiest three days before christmas now finally over marco shuts up the shop its time to celebrate. Its. Doom. Would like to have worn the dicky bow for the christmas dinner with his parents but he only has one shirt with a collar and he couldnt find it anywhere. But i sure enough put. On the strike of midnight lays baby jesus in the manger hailing the official start to christmas according to neapolitan tradition. And vs son in gregorio our main the street of the native of the sea makers is finally quiet. Can. Chew. Imagine a child. 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