Lorenzo Ciamei

Teresa, a mother from the Lazio suburbs, finds herself making an extreme gesture to defend her family from an unscrupulous loan shark. After serving her prison sentence, she must face the return to everyday life.

Italy, WWII. After his anti-fascist mother is arrested, Mario spends his childhood on the streets. In 1947 they are miraculously reunited and start a new life in America. Based on the life of Mario Capecchi, 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Mixing dramatizations and real-life interviews, this film tells the story of four Jewish children who endured the brutal anti-Semitism of fascist Italy.

At a middle school in Pisa, no one has ever challenged the cool kids — until new girl Terry arrives with bold ideas and the rivalries begin.