Matteo Boscolo Gioachina

Little Alisha finds herself torn between duties greater than herself and the search for a carefree moment, that lightness proper to childhood.

Miriam is the 17-year-old daughter of Egyptian parents. She lives with her mother and her sisters in Milan and like them, she has a small cross tattooed on her wrist, the identifying sign of the Orthodox Coptic community. For Miriam, that cross is becoming heavier and heavier, like her responsibili- ties with the family, from which she tries to escape seeking a foothold in her group of friends.

Tommy returns home. It has been a long time since he was last there, and it no longer feels like home. His mother has just died, and for him it is a place of war, haunted by ghosts and the presence of a little girl he has always run away from: his daughter.