Les Films de l'Ouest

Jewish lovers (Rupert Everett, Stefania Sandrelli) and a homosexual doctor (Philippe Noiret) fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy.

Three little ladies have lived for more than eighty years in the heart of a patio. In this modest theatre, daily rituals go hand in hand with the lapping of the fountain and nothing escapes María, the turtle. This place frozen in time is disturbed by the metamorphoses of the outside world...