Thursday, June 4, 2009

Simonetta Greggio

Du jour au lendemain (5/29)

Les mains nues

"Books make you think, make you a little more intelligent. Television prevents intelligence and thought."

Emma is a veterinarian in the country. At forty three, in the middle of a difficult life, autarchic and solitary, the young, teenage Giovanni arrives. She'd known his parents, Micol and Raphael. She had wanted to forget what had happened between them, bury it as deep as possible. She'd prefer Giovanni left, but he stays. And little by little a tenderness, feverish and awkward, grows between them.

When Micol comes back for her son, she believes the irreparable has occured, that Emma and Gio are having an affair. There will be a trial. And revenge. But about what and on whom? Over a love that remains taboo? Or over a past whose wounds haven't healed?