Trap Diary

Between 1967 and 1977 Italian Art experiences a moment of glory on the international art scene. Art comes out from galleries and museums and becomes expression of social and political change. The film describes a period when Italy was the centre of international avant-garde.

Franco Lucci is an entrepreneur on the verge of bankruptcy. The salvation of his company hangs on a large public contract that he could obtain thanks to the intervention of a minister who has become a friend and whom he has invited to dinner. Together with Michele, his partner and brother-in-law, Franco has organized the perfect evening: in addition to paying him a large bribe, the two arrange for him to find a girl willing to sleep with him in exchange for a recommendation. All under the eyes of Rita, Franco's wife, who tries to indulge her husband in his last desperate attempt to obtain the million-dollar contract. Because of the girl, the evening takes an unexpected turn.

Eleven Sardinian women, chosen from a hundred actresses during the casting for a movie on about Grazia Deledda, Tellus with intensity, moments of their lives e their view of Deleddas story. Thus the portrait of a late nineteenth-century girl emerges, born and forced into a small village in the interior of Sardinia permeated with a conservative culture and agro-pastoralism, who struggles to open a gap and give substance to the magma of passions that agitate her. Through the story of the eleven girls, the profile of a young Sardinian woman of today who follows her dreams and cultivates her aspirations also emerges.