A 50-year-old widow, who works in a hospital, discovers that her husband’s former employer has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke. The employer’s son offers her a job as a caregiver for his father, unaware that the father played a role in the death of the widow’s husband. The story of personal revenge and redemption is set in Trieste, a city on the Adriatic coast, at the border between Italy and Slovenia.

Director’s Statement:
I was born and brought up in an area of north-east Italy, right on the border with Slovenia, where asbestos is causing a huge massacre. In some cities and villages, almost all households have at least one family member who has been exposed to asbestos dust and risks getting sick. 

The film moves this social conflict into a family, personal and intimate one, where in a community that was poisoned by inside, the lack of justice drives the protagonist into an exploration of the conflict between guilt and impunity. 

The research for this film started almost 15 years ago, after I shot a short film named Dust, which had a similar dramaturgic structure. That experience taught me the complexity of this theme and of the characters’ journey. Both needed a deeper immersion in the dynamics of revenge/forgiveness, hiding/revealing, mourning/rebirth. Digging into these human fields for a long time gave me the chance to explore extreme and unconscious feelings, which are at the bottom of the characters’ choices during their lives in the film. As a filmmaker that worked in documentaries, I was always aware of the power that realism and authenticity can have inside a fictional structure.