Film made as competition entry for Chicago Film festival. Theme was ‘Freedom’. Woolley’s entry was dark and pessimistic with a man’s life moving from forceps delivery, through bullying at school to climbing into a coffin.
Alex returns to his village with Jordi, after a while, in order to celebrate San Juan night. However, due to a summer storm, they have to shelter in an old abandoned house where both played when they were children.
One day in the rugged countryside of Calabria encloses all that is important for Antonio, a rite that represents a crucial moment of his existence: the harvest of figs.
The Sienese Pia Tolomei is imprisoned in a castle by a jealous husband. Based on the novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, inspired by a story from the Italian Middle Ages.
The story of a peasant whose harshness and bluntness only provoke disputes and anger, and his honesty and sense of truth and honor in conjunction with the previous qualities only exacerbate these disputes.