Agherose

“I approached Pierluigi Cappello when he became my bedside table companion. We didn’t know each other, but were already intimate. His poems are full of images, I might even have dreamt some. I didn’t know anything about his personal life, about the motorcycle accident when he was sixteen, and that he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. There’s no trace of it in the poems: in his verses Pierluigi runs, and sometimes he flies.”

Ulderica was a peculiar child, brave but at the same time afraid. Today she is an artist and retains the soul of the child she was. A never-before-seen portrait of the great Friulian photographer.

The astronaut Debora floats into the outer space. After a turbulence, she reawakens in a familiar domestic environment that she can hardly recognize: all the objects that she finds have undergone a metamorphosis. Exploring this place, she meets two aliens, her Mother and her Grandmother. Telepathically, they tell her about their lives, sexuality and motherhood. Once their relationship is restored, astronaut Debora leaves to continue her journey.

A forgotten historic page from the 20th century; a page on Italian concentration camps and on inhabitants from Slovenian and Croatian villages who were interned, thousands of them died of starvation. The documentary tells the unpublished story of a group of children who survived one of those camps.