Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Chiara’s daily grind, as she moved from Italy to Paris, is compelled to a suspension and to a time of reflection, in virtual contact with Umberto on Facebook. This contact with a distant friend offers the opportunity to talk about escapes, departures, come-backs, past and present. 20 years before, Umberto was a young boy and had fled from home with two friends. They had been missing for two months, leaving everybody at home worried and dismayed. The other two friends were Davide and Manuel, cousins of Chiara. Actually, the three friends had planned their escape very carefully, disseminating contradictory clues about their destination. Having in mind Spain as a and of freedom, they had set up a ridge tent on the beach of Barcellona in early February and started looking for a job. Although cold, hunger and youth had worn them out and had forced them to go back home, each one of them had eventually found a way to continue their journey, their quest.

It is this “quest” that inspires the film, which is pieced together, bit by bit, by the accounts of the former young boys as well as by family and historical records and the explicit reference to the film making itself in the studio.