Three different epochs through the gaze of three children: Zelinda, who loses her mother to the Spanish Flu during World War I and sees the specter of Nazism loom; Assunta, who lives during the Nazi occupation between bombings, raids, and executions; Icaro, who abandons the countryside during the Years of Lead (“Anni di Piombo”) and accepts a new life. A story across the difficulties and the troubles of the 20th century between memories, affection, nostalgia, and gratitude.

A road movie on a red truck driving around Sicily, on the lookout for new oral storytellers who draw on the great tradition of the cùnto (tale) and its tellers a movie that shows us another Sicily and its reawakening through the universal power of its folktales from the past, used to sing of our present. Venetian Nights 2021

2011 film by Emanuele Crialese