UNA STORIA
LOGLINE:
A story like far too many others, where the actors change but the script stays the same. A story that plays out every other day. A story in which the victim always belongs to the same gender.: women.
SYNOPSIS:
A man emerges from a shelter, his face is distraught, while holding a hammer in his hand. A dog approaches him, baring its teeth. The man’s name is Fabrizio. Inside the shelter lie the bodies of Alessia, Gaia, and little Erica – victims of Fabrizio’s brutal madness.
START OF SHOOTING: July 6, 2024
DURATION: 20 minutes
Fabrizio Odetto
Erica Nebiolo
Alessia Olivetti
e con Alberto Barbi, Carlo Giuseppe Ramondetti, Giorgia Chianello, Paco Zafferani, Sandra Pettiti, Elena Ramondetti, Lorenzo Zoppi, Davide Nebiolo, Sandro Belerio, Alessandra Milano, Manuela Facelli
CREW:
Directed by: Alessia Olivetti
TREATMENT:
In a small mountain village, two men speak in their local dialect about a crime committed nearby by another man—a stranger. His name is Fabrizio, and he and Alessia have recently separated. He still lives in the village where he had moved after meeting Alessia, while she has fled far away, up in the mountains, where she now runs an alpine refuge. Their young daughter, Erica, splits her time between her parents. Like many separated couples, they are trying to build a new family balance in the aftermath of their divorce.
After the separation, Fabrizio is trying to build a relationship with his daughter. Alessia, meanwhile, has broken away from her past and found peace and silence around her—a life completely different from the one she once had.
Every time Fabrizio has his daughter for the weekend, he takes her to the cable car that leads to the mountain refuge Alessia now runs. It’s a routine that’s been repeating every two weeks for months—a ritual that fills him with a sense of helplessness, a reminder that things are no longer under his control.
The separation has imposed harsh rules he never anticipated.
One day, against the agreement made with Alessia, Fabrizio decides to go up to the refuge to pick up Erica, spend the night there, and try to speak with his ex-wife.
Over time, Alessia has come to terms with the distance. Fabrizio, on the other hand, has harbored a growing sense of repressed anger and powerlessness, gradually convincing himself that the only way to reclaim the life he once had is to take back Alessia and Erica—by any means necessary.
And so, in the light of a new day breaking, a brutal crime against life and love is committed—one of those crimes that, just as the two men in the mountain village said at the beginning of our story, happens over and over again, so often that we’ve grown used to it.
