Regione Marche

The film recounts an experience, that of a director and his two actors at grips with a play: from the first meeting to the initial readings, the rehearsals done at home, the ones done on stage and finally the first performance. But an experience that took place in the peculiar situation in which the whole of Italian culture found itself in the days between the first and second wave of the pandemic, when it really seemed possible to restart and the feeling of euphoria was accompanied by the illusion that the worst was behind us. Once again we were suddenly checked in our desire for beauty, for life.

The story of Gaspare Spontini, a brilliant artist who rose from a small village in the Marche region, contrasting provincial life with universal musical invention in a quest for the relationship between art, love, and eternity.

Anna, a French journalist at the peak of her career, drops everything to pursue a small story. A mad and creative theater figure who died in the 1980s ignites in her passions and dormant doubts. She finds herself in a town in the Marche region, where her research on Roberto Cimetta begins. That carefree and rootless artist, perpetually traveling to European festivals, and his story captivate Anna so deeply that she imagines scenes, relives situations and impressions, trying to sort out her past.