Sad Letters

Longtake short film

A romantic drama loosely based on the life of Federica Paganelli, one of the first girls in the world to live with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) for over 20 years.

Mario, a retired conductor, spends his days in a luxury resort in the south of England. He has been suffering from Alzheimer's for some time and is often assailed by sudden memories that he then he, punctually, he forgets. He lives with the fear that illness can erase his past, made up of fame and success. But above all of the love of his wife Amelia, who died years earlier, and of his daughter Michela who one day hopes to find again in a place far from time ...

A young girl is witness to her father's destiny.