Nico, a lively, stubborn, and cheeky boy raised in a secular family in a modern, technological, and hyper-connected world, is forced to spend the summer in Sicily, staying with his grumpy and devoutly religious elderly aunt. She lives alone in an ancient mansion filled with legends and superstitions, without Wi-Fi, appliances, or any form of modern technology, a place completely frozen in time.
The aunt receives him with annoyance and tries to forcefully pull him into her world, inhabited by angels and spirits and dominated by a mystical sense of religion.
The clash between modernity and the past, reason and faith, speed and slowness marks the beginning of their stormy relationship. Yet, little by little, a deep bond grows—one that neither of them knew they needed.
Festival & awards
Busan International Film Festival 2025: World Cinema
Cinemed – Festival Cinema Mediterranéen Montpellier 2025: Compétition longs métrages
Festa del Cinema di Roma 2025: Alice nella Città – Panorama Italia
Festival de Cinema Italiano no Brasil 2025
Festival du Cinéma Italien de Montélimar – Le Teil 2025
Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt 2025: Compétition
International Thessaloniki Film Festival 2025: International Competition
Les rencontres du cinéma italien à Toulouse 2025: Compétition
Locarno Film Festival 2025: Cineasti del Presente – Premio Speciale della Giuria CINÉ+, Pardo per la migliore interpretazione (Aurora Quattrocchi)
MittelCinemaFest 2025
Mostra de Cinema Italià de Barcelona 2025