Synopsis

Alone in a house she will inhabit for only one more night, a woman sorts through her papers and retraces her past through old letters, diaries, and postcards. Here is Laura as a child and then a teenager, traveling with her father, a tormented man hiding an embarrassing secret. A young fascist officer during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, had Professor Illuminati been a war criminal? And why had he returned there in the 1960s, to work for the Italian Cultural Institute? Chasing her father through the streets of Addis Ababa, Laura searched for answers, but it wasn't enough. Traveling through Ethiopia and Turkey, she wrote the diary that now keeps her friend awake..