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The man who woke up in the future

After a knock to the head in 2013, Dr Pier Piccioni's mind was stuck in 2001. With no memory of the intervening years, he was faced with a family and a world he didn't recognise.

Dr Pierdante Piccioni is an unwilling time-traveller. Twelve years of his life were completely wiped from his memory after he suffered brain damage in a car crash in 2013. When he woke up in the hospital the next day, he thought it was 2001 and could not recognise his wife or his now adult sons.

Reeling from the shock, and no longer able to practise medicine, Pier tries to find the man he had been. Searching through thousands of emails he discovers that he had a dark side.

This is the amazing true story of a man out of time, who, unable to retrieve his past, endeavours to find love and a future in a strange new world.

Presenter: Jo Fidgen
Producer: Edgar Maddicott

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(Photo: Dr Pierdante Piccioni. Credit: Sylvain Lefevre/ Getty)

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