Emilio Fallarino

The Magpie is a psychological thriller centred around Jack, an Italian painter hiding a dark secret.

A film in four episodes, each one describing a special love story in today’s Italy.

Clara has had a difficult relationship with motherhood since finding out she was pregnant with her daughter Amanda when she was 20, challenging the body she deems unfit for the role of mother by giving it without pleasure and working long hours in sordid night clubs. She decides to leave her daughter and partner but ten years later she is forced to take a newfound responsibility when Amanda falls ill.