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The Life Apart

In Vicenza, a beautiful Italian art city, a young wealthy couple joyfully welcomes the birth of a long-awaited daughter in the early 1980s. But the child’s face is disfigured by a red birthmark that covers half her face. This spot haunts the mother to the point that she rejects her responsibilities as a mother. The child’s aunt, a famous concert pianist, takes over her education, thus discovering her exceptional musical talent.

Top Cast

  • Beatrice Barison

    Beatrice Barison

    Rebecca (17 anni)

  • Sonia Bergamasco

    Sonia Bergamasco

    Erminia

  • Paolo Pierobon

    Paolo Pierobon

    Osvaldo

  • Valentina Bellè

    Valentina Bellè

    Maria

  • Michela Cescon

    Michela Cescon

    Madre di Lucilla

  • Edoardo Coen

    Edoardo Coen

  • Giulia Briata

    Giulia Briata

  • Viola Basso

    Viola Basso

    Rebecca (6 anni)

  • Flora Zambello

    Flora Zambello

    Lucilla (6 anni)

Overview

In Vicenza, a beautiful Italian art city, a young wealthy couple joyfully welcomes the birth of a long-awaited daughter in the early 1980s. But the child’s face is disfigured by a red birthmark that covers half her face. This spot haunts the mother to the point that she rejects her responsibilities as a mother. The child’s aunt, a famous concert pianist, takes over her education, thus discovering her exceptional musical talent.

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Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza commits a desperate theft that costs her her reputation and social position. Incarcerated in Italy’s largest female prison, she finds herself living alongside thieves, junkies, sex workers and revolutionaries. After her release, she continues to meet with these women and over the course of a sweltering summer, a life-changing relationship flowers – a relationship that will reawaken her the desire to live and to write.

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