The Medicine Seller

Stefano runs a theater workshop with people with mental disabilities, transforming fragility and marginalization into creativity, resilience, and life.

Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs.

Sergio has a degree in botanics, but cannot find a job. Then, he gets the announcement that his former girlfriend is getting married.

During his baptism, which takes place at the age of ten, Christian commits an unexpected and mysterious gesture in church, which worries his parents. Father Siro, a man of the church and Christian's educator, reassures them by explaining to them that Christian is only a child with a different sensitivity from that of his peers. But speaking privately to little Christian, Father Siro appears anything but reassuring, revealing to the child that a long and tortuous journey awaits him in his adult life: during his baptism Christian 'saw' the archangels cleanse the face of Christ from the wounds of his human suffering, and Christian himself will live an existence soiled and raped by pain.

Biographical film about Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo (1786-1842)