Satnam Singh was one of the thousands of Indians working illegally on farms in Italy, especially in the Pontine Marshes area. They are underpaid, and women are even at risk of sexual exploitation.

Two scientists even reported having found the culprit, dubbed Bacillus malariae, in the Pontine Marshes near Rome. But in a military hospital in Algeria, French doctor Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ...

and Mussolini’s own resettlement of northern Italians on the lands reclaimed from the Pontine Marshes, on the northern fringe of the South, which were also seen as a way to build national unity. As ...

The film's American title was Heaven Over the Marshes, and indeed most of the story is set in the disease-ridden Pontine Marshes on the outskirts of Rome. This was the home of Maria Goretti ...