Matilde Vigna

A metaphysical kammerspiel about political fight, betrayal, madness, focusing on a exiled communist couple during a train journey in the early months of WWII.

Pietro decides to grant the wish of an elderly lady he calls Grandma and takes her out of the nursing home where she lives to take her to the seaside. It is the beginning of a road trip and an unexpected friendship. From Italy to Spain, passing through France, to Almería, a city Anna has always wanted to see, an exciting and unexpected journey will bind the two protagonists together.

In late 19th-century Turin, young Lidia Poët fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers; a profession, at the time, reserved exclusively for men. Nevertheless, nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in Italy.