Lisangela Sgobba

"Nicola, where the sun rises" - Tells the true story of the transfer, from Myra (today Demre in Turkey ) to Bari , of the relics of St. Nicholas. 62 sailors arrive in Lycia aboard 3 sailing ships to steal the bones of the saint. They return to Bari on 8 May 1087 and announce they want to build a new basilica dedicated to St. Nicholas.

It is the day of Enrica and Filippo's wedding. All their relatives are waiting in the church for the arrival of the bride. It is a stifling hot day.

In a dreamlike, suspended setting, a melancholy-looking boy finds himself alone on a vast green plain along with a single wooden chair. There she is visited by an ethereal and aloof woman who embodies her memories and past. With the help of a recited poem, the woman attracts the protagonist’s “inner child,” a symbol of her childhood and her fragility. Despite the boy’s bitterness, the woman and the child take hands and choose to continue together into the unknown, leaving the protagonist alone to deal with his own emptiness and the need to vanish in order to finally move on.