Cecilia Petrujno

Autumn, 1984. Valeria is ten years old; she and her brother live the constant distress of their father's violence and their mother's submission and complicity. Valeria is forced to hide what's going on. On her birthday, her best friend reveals a secret: at the sound of music boxes, the saddest truths can be told, as they hurt less. Valeria has a plan now. Will it work?

A feature film that intertwines a handful of short fictional stories marked by the anguish that the death of loved ones always causes: two women who miss the same man, an old man who returns to the place where he lived experiences that left a mark on him in his youth, a rural town invaded by its own memories, and a mother who reunites with a son whose life hangs in the balance after insisting on unnecessary distancing.