Flavia, a young nun, challenges the oppressive system of a Catholic convent in 15th-century Italy. She faces misogyny, brutality, and injustice, and after being raped, she seeks revenge against her tormentors. Through self-liberation and acts of violence, Flavia fights for freedom and female empowerment. Set against the backdrop of superstition and religious conflicts, Flavia becomes a symbol of defiance in a world plagued by misogyny and injustice.
After years of absence, Nica returns to her native village. Her grandmother’s olive trees are threatened by a bug infestation. Against her father’s will, she fights to preserve the trees and maintain family traditions.
75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...
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