AM remembers, maybe she dreams, and days and nights follow each other. The House in the Woods gets crowded with mysterious visitors while a Little Dragon moves tiny, unsteady steps out of the darkness of memory. The humanist vision of Anna Maria Ortese echoes through the collective dream of the guests of a drug rehabilitation center.
AM remembers, maybe she dreams, and days and nights follow each other. The House in the Woods gets crowded with mysterious visitors while a Little Dragon moves tiny, unsteady steps out of the darkness of memory. The humanist vision of Anna Maria Ortese echoes through the collective dream of the guests of a drug rehabilitation center.
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
A middle-aged man, Pietro, becomes a widower and must take care of his daughter. He will never have the time to delve into his own pain, committing himself to raising his daughter with love and dedication, in an all-encompassing relationship in which one heals the other's wounds through his own. When, after a few years, he tries to start a new life with a new partner, not everything will go as hoped: his daughter's reaction will be exaggerated and Pietro will be put to the test. He will find himself struggling between anger and paternal instinct.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
An aging soccer fanatic faces down the reality of his past while struggling to give himself and a young follower very different futures.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix.
Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. They live in Rome, moving between accomplishments and routine, affection and something that might be fading. In search of new energy, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo, and their thirteen-year-old daughter Vittoria—bright, curious, a little eccentric. Tensions soon rise.