Sofia Conti

Adriano is a middle-aged man living in a dilapidated villa in Tuscany, when a group of young idealistic students arrives to restore the villa's vineyards.

Clara is a retired ornithologist, convinced that she can find the last specimen of a very rare bird extincted for 40 years. Her obsession culminated in moving to a house on a mountain, into the middle of a forest. The fragility of her psyche forces her daughter Adele to join her and try to convince her to return home. But in the woods, Adele has an encounter that makes her stay longer than she would have imagined.

Betty is the owner of the Grand Capitol Hotel, an elegant establishment with retro charm. It is a “jewel” that Betty does not want to see age with her, so she has decided to sell it. Before leaving the hotel, she contacts her granddaughter Emme to spend her last days at the Capitol with her and say goodbye to the hotel with a poolside party.

Two parallel lives unfold across intersecting timelines, confronting one another in a journey that questions whether sacrifice, integrity, and mental well-being are prices worth paying for the pursuit of popularity.

Sewn together in flesh and locked away from the world, Alba and Rubra live under the suffocating grip of a castrating mother. While Rubra accepts their fate in silence, Alba is driven by a visceral need to escape — though the freedom she imagines may not be what she truly desires.