Stefano Cau

Cagliari. It is the day before Christmas Eve in 1985 when the owner of a wine shop is killed with three gunshots for a few hundred thousand lire. The judiciary needs a culprit, the city needs illusory security. A few days after the murder, Aldo is arrested. His crime is his past as a heroin addict, which is well known to the police, who accuse him on the basis of flimsy and specious evidence. Aldo, who is innocent, spends six months in solitary confinement before taking his own life.

Issa is a young girl who wants to see the world. She lives in a small village where no babies have been born in a long time. She is pregnant. She wants to run away, but the old villagers want her to give birth in the village at any cost. The future not belong to her.

Set in southern Sardinia, Badabò follows the adventures of a musician forced to look for a new job following the pandemic. Having found a job in home care for the elderly, the woman will have to reach the people assigned to her in the most remote places, discovering a world that lives the contingent situation with serene acceptance. In front of the camera, women and men on the threshold of a hundred years old expose personal memories and emotions, letting themselves be infected by the unpredictable musical drifts of the protagonist. As in an ethnographic film revisited by Jacques Demy, real-life cinema and musical come together, creating an unprecedented experiment that is also social.