Sonia Pastecchia

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Emigrating means mourning the land that we were born in and which, once behind us, becomes a sacred place in our memory to which we are attached. The director’s parents left their native village of Esanatoglia in Italy to come and work in Belgium in the fifties. For the past few years, new migrants from Europe and around the world are now coming to work in this prosperous part of Italy and are moving into the village. Starting from the story of one family, a polyphonic tale grows to illustrate this process or mourning and re-birth which, little by little, is deeply transforming our identity.

Eleven-year-old Alix lives in a village that takes pride in hunting the animals in the surrounding forests. One day, she hides in the woods to secretly observe the hunt. As she watches the dying animals, she grows attached to these beautiful, innocent creatures and continues to care for them even after death. Alix returns home with dirty hands and with a powerful realization of the value of life. Who is the real monster in this world? Those in the village, or those in the forest?