The Other Profile by Irene Graziosi “I gasp for air, it’s as if someone is sitting on my chest. It’s me, that’s my voice, those are my memories, she’s wearing my identity and has left me naked. Only now that it’s in someone else’s mouth does my story restore to me some truth about who I am.” Once part of a prestigious psychology program at an elite university in Paris, twenty-six-year-old Maia finds herself living in Milan, in a relationship with an older man, stuck in the monotony of her own apathy. She’s working a few nights a week at a pub, more out of not having to answer to her boyfriend questions. She’s fixated on gummy crocodiles of which she only eats the stomachs, then throws away. She’s dropped out of her program just before graduation, following the death of her younger sister, who she seemed to enjoy tormenting. She doesn’t express remorse so much as a hollow nostalgia. It’s not her sister she mourns, but the absence of someone weaker than her. Crude and cutting and probably just curious, Maia haphazardly assumes the role of public image consultant for eighteen-year-old influencer Gloria, despite having no experience.