Marlene Biendara

In the heat of a Ligurian summer, a guarded young man hiding the truth about his feature falls into first love and discovers that protecting the people he loves may mean letting them in.

While a second line appears on 15-year-old Zoe’s pregnancy test, her stressed-out mother Gabriella and her care-dependent grandmother Elisabeth are preoccupied with their own worries. Caught in a spiral of mutual criticism, they leave no room for Zoe’s reality.