Stefano Di Battista

Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer. Tied by a profound emotional bond of true sisterhood, the two women's lives are two sides of the same coin, but their mutual solidarity isn’t always enough to lighten the load of their difficult circumstances.

A one-night theatrical performance adapted from Marguerite Yourcenar’s epistolary novel, performed for TV in the monumental Canopo at Villa Adriana (Tivoli). Directed and starring Alessandro Preziosi (with Elisa Di Eusanio), it blends theater, music, and contemporary art installations by Alfredo Pirri, with original music by Giacomo Vezzani and live interventions featuring saxophonist Stefano Di Battista and violinist Giovanni Andrea Zanon.

Louis is a talented jazz musician who, after giving up music, now makes ends meet by working as a taxi driver and dealing cocaine, but ruining his relationship with his wife and daughter. But when an old friend of his father offers him to join his band for an important concert, the protagonist is presented with an opportunity for redemption.