An Offering

Marta must deal with her bosses when she finds a rat inside her home. Amid a rodent infestation, fear and panic take hold of a family in decline.

After finding some unrevealed negatives that belonged to his grandfather, the director begins an investigation to unearth the stories of his ancestors, motivated by the question about the influence of the past on the present and the fragility of memory that disintegrates over time.

Using re-appropriated foreign archival footage, a poem takes shape like the waves of a sea, engaging in dialogue with the dead and the living. A cinematic spell is unleashed, delving into exile. Foreignness. Longing. What does it mean to be a grandson and a grandfather? To love from afar?

Favio Navoni was a disruptive photographer who could capture his art anywhere. But at the peak of his youth, he broke, and was never able to be the same again. His family tells us who he was and what it is like to live today with the absence of someone who was once so full of life.