The story of a secret, hidden away in an envelope for forty years. The story of a child who grows up and must face the greatest pain imaginable – the loss of a mother. What will wound him more, fear of death, or fear of life itself?
This thrilling drama by the renowned Marco Bellocchio deals with one of the most sensitive themes of Italian cinematography – the relationship to one’s mother.

Marco Bellocchio is the current president of the Cineteca di Bologna.
In 2005, Emilia-Romagna Region published a monograph on the director born in Bobbio (Piacenza), in the series “A Region full of Cinema”.