In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.
Acting
Silvio Orlando's sweaty desperation is practically a fifth element.
Production
Rome as crumbling dust bowl—tourist board's nightmare, cinephile's dream.

Director
Paolo Virzì
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Virzì filmed during actual Roman water crises, making some locations temporarily unusable when taps ran dry for real.
The film deliberately echoes 1970s Italian 'commedia all'italiana'—using collective catastrophe to expose class fractures, just with climate change replacing postwar poverty.