1943, Italy: In the darkest days of the war, a young baker s apprentice suddenly murders his employer before taking to the empty midnight streets, frantically searching for someone or somethingÂ…a haunting image of passion, rage and desperation.
Sixty years later: Passion seems to be missing from the life of Giovanna (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), a young wife and mother of two who appears to have found some sense of domestic peace. Her husband, Filippo (Filippo Nigro), is a good man, but saddled with a poor-paying night shift, and Giovanna supplements her own full-time income as a poultry inspector by baking pastries and deserts for a local pub.
With more than enough to do, Giovanna isn t too pleased when Filippo insists on bringing home a confused elderly man (Massimo Girotti) they find wandering in the streets. In and out of lucidity, the old man utters a single name ( Simone ), and to appease Giovanna, Filippo insists that he will take the man to a police station the following morning. But
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Length: 01:45 Posted: 7/23/2009
