SYNOPSIS Delia (Paola Cortellesi) is Ivano’s wife, the mother of three children. Wife, mother. These are the roles that define her and that is enough for her. We are in the second half of the 1940s and this ordinary family lives in a Rome torn between the positive push of liberation and the miseries of the war just behind them. Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea) is the supreme boss and master of the family, he works hard to bring the little money home and does not miss an opportunity to underline it, sometimes with contemptuous tones, others, directly with the belt. He only has respect for that rogue of his father, Sor Ottorino (Giorgio Colangeli), a cantankerous and despotic old man of whom Delia is in all respects the caregiver. Delia’s only relief is her friend Marisa (Emanuela Fanelli), with whom she shares moments of levity and a few intimate confidences. It’s springtime and the whole family is in turmoil over the imminent engagement of the beloved eldest daughter Marcella (Romana Maggiora Vergano), who, for her part, only hopes to marry quickly to a nice middle-class boy, Giulio (Francesco Centorame), and finally get rid of that awkward family. Delia herself asks for nothing more, she accepts the life she has been given and a good marriage for her daughter is all she aspires to. The arrival of a mysterious letter, however, will ignite her courage to overturn her prearranged plans and imagine a better future, not only for her. Produced by Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Wildside, a Fremantle Group company, and Vision Distribution. International sales: catia.rossi@visiondistribution.it