Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young Moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. At first unsure of what to do, they then decide to take him with them.
Acting
de Medeiros carries decades of unspoken history in her eyes.
Cinematography
Northern Italy never looked this simultaneously beautiful and suffocating.
Writing
Dialogue so sparse you hear everything left unsaid.
Director
Marco S. Puccioni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Maria de Medeiros, already iconic from Pulp Fiction's Fabienne, reportedly took this role for exactly one scene: the wordless breakfast where she watches Anis eat.
Released during Italy's 2007 immigration crackdown, the film's quiet humanism was read by critics as deliberate political counter-programming — and dismissed by others as aestheticizing suffering.
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