Simone Petralia's film addresses an important theme: the story of a love affair in a sober and poetic manner, without excesses, with a clear demarcation between the "happy days" of a couple lived outside, in freedom, and the present days that take place inside a house.

The female protagonist, an actress (Anna Galiena), speaks, recites, gestures, and takes the stage, while the male protagonist, a director (Franco Nero), is silent and moody. These two roles reflect the fiction of cinema and the reality of life.

An illness brings the two closer in a different way than in the past; love becomes the intangible touch between two hands, care, and a final gesture of love that cannot help but touch the heart.

The film indirectly cites a poem by my beloved Emily Dickinson:

Those who are loved do not know death, because love is immortality, or rather, it is divine substance.

Those who love do not know death, because love makes life reborn in divinity.

A must watch for anyone who loves life.

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