Marta Richeldi

Follow Teresa Iorio, a young woman who leaves her rural Sicilian hometown for Milan to find work--and much more--at a newly opened department store: The Ladies' Paradise.

When a kidnapping victim turns up alive after fifteen years, a profiler and a private investigator try to piece together the mystery.

Inspired by the work of an award-winning Italian novelist, this post-modern noir fantasy is centered on the image of a young poet and his aristocratic family. Set in the 1800s the plot develops around an ancient curse and a series of mysterious and terrifying events occurring on the family country estate. Featuring authentic period sets and costumes, the film is a metaphor of maturing and becoming, where death and rebirth intertwine and perpetuate each other in a continuous flux of life.

Three estranged siblings arrange a fake trip to Paris to fulfill the wish of their terminally-ill elderly father.

An interlude of love during the Italian Resistance, when it was a duty to choose which side to take between good and evil.

Follow Teresa Iorio, a young woman who leaves her rural Sicilian hometown for Milan to find work--and much more--at a newly opened department store: The Ladies' Paradise.