Giulia Tivelli

Somewhere there is a world where unloved children grow up in cardboard boxes, or perhaps are left there by parents who do not want them. In that world, Daniel finds himself lost, and inside his little box he embarks on a turbulent journey to perhaps embrace someone who will truly love him.

Tartuca is the intimate and heartbreaking story of the bond between Alice, a fifteen-year-old girl, and her Congolese nanny, Lelo. After more than ten years spent in a suffocating bourgeois family unable to express love, Lelo decides to quit her job. Their separation opens a crack that reveals the family's emotional dysfunctions and the silent need for freedom, care, and genuine affection. It is a story of separation, but also of revelation: when healthy love becomes the only way out.