Martina Mele

A woman and a crowd of men inhabit a gloomy building. One day at the top of the huge staircase a caw is heard.

It is the middle of August in an apartment in the Roman suburbs. Tommaso is a teenager and is subjected to the teasing of his older brother Leonardo, who calls him "Pelorosso" because of his coppery hair. If he wants his brother to stop teasing him, Tommaso will have to cut his hair.

Gabriel and Xavier spend their afternoons playing, wandering the countryside, and exploring abandoned places. All seems peaceful, but a feeling is tormenting Gabriel. Is it love or religion ?

A father is haunted by a recurring nightmare in which his son kills him. Life on their farm becomes increasingly difficult.

Ersekë, Albania. Elyria lives with her family following the strict rules imposed by her father, hiding her anger with obedience. A powerful desire for rebellion grows in her day by day that will lead her to the fulfillment of a bitter, but necessary, act of revolution.

In a dysfunctional family of fishmongers, Beppe and his little brother Davide live daily with the abuses of their father Arturo. Standing at a crossroads, Beppe has to choose what is best for himself and his little brother.

Fragments of the image of Switzerland in the 1970s and Italy in the 2000s alternate under the passage of moments of real life, of collective memory, reconstructing a family imaginary dissipated by time.