A young girl is in the period of puberty, in conflict with herself and her childhood. In her new room in the attic she is intrigued by a niche in the wall covered by a curtain. Inside the cavity lives a creature that intrigues the girl.
The two interact in a silent relationship where the creature tries to steal the girl’s stuffed toy (the last totemic idol of her childhood) trying to buy it with chocolate eggs. For her part the girl first has a surly attitude towards the creature, then with distrust gives in to the exchange: the girl abandons her stuffed toy in favor of sweets.
From this moment the creature can leave the niche by canceling the confinement of the “veil”, it is a puppet nemesis of the stuffed toy that mutilates the puppet and triggers the growth process in the girl by wrapping her in a cocoon with the same curtain that divided them.
During her struggle for survival - and evolution - she has visions of what she would become if she were to emerge from her cocoon: the tormentor of her stuffed animals by feeding them to the creature. Then, in the end, she dies inside the cocoon.
From childhood to maturity: the loss of the “little boy”, the perversion of the Easter Rabbit who becomes the bearer of a terrible, painful and terribly unwanted change, yet necessary and obligatory.
SETTING:
The story takes place in an environment NOT belonging to the reality in which we live.
The actions take place in an “other Land”, a fairy-tale world steeped in horrid magical realism where the surreal does not require clarification.
FOR THE READER:
The story wants to tell the loss of childhood and the fall of the child’s totemic idols (pillow, blankets, doll), they are distorted in the dreamlike disturbance of the passage of age.
It wants to propose a traumatic and disturbing vision of the growth process (a terribly wrong coming-of-age story). A pessimistic vision of puberty, the drama of growing up.
The short film aims to continue the tradition of Alice Liddel, Dorothy Gale, Wendy Darling and Coraline Jones: girls who through adventures (even terribly adverse ones) undergo a metamorphosis: they must grow up!
Director of photography
Matteo Nisticò (D.O.P); Marco Costantini (Camera operator).
Set Design
Francesa Lio (Assistant to art department coordinator);
Adele Busso (Laboratory technician and property master);
Elisabetta Ajanì (Art department coordinator); Marco Trucco (Additional property master and constructor); Valentina Fusaroli (Production design concept).
Costume Design
Ermelinda Giacchi (Costume designer)
Make-up
Ermelinda Giacchi (M.U.A)
Cast and characters
Sara Santin (protagonista), Roberto Rastelli (il fantoccio)
Production
Albertina Produzioni
con il sostegno di Film Commission Torino Piemonte
Collaborazione alla sceneggiatura
Andrea Balzola e Alberto Ausoni
