Synopsis

Viola is determined and talented. She left Naples driven by the desire to become a journalist, but in Milan she quickly discovers that for her (young, female, and inexperienced) success in that world is not a given. Ershela also left her homeland, Albania, full of faith in the future. Her deep, yet naive hope for a better life, however, is destined to shatter against the harshest reality: the man she thought was a loving and faithful companion will instead be the one who forces her to become a prostitute. While Viola laboriously embarks on her journey as a reporter, becoming passionate about the stories of those living on the margins, Ershela takes refuge in her letters to Alina, her beloved, distant sister. She confides everything to her: about her first client, about the man who gives her chocolates, about the boy she likes, and about the friend who, one evening, throws herself in front of a truck to escape an inhuman fate. And it is precisely those letters, filled with pain but also with strength and love for life, that unite the destinies of Ershela and Viola in a breathtaking epilogue. A thin but unbreakable thread that intertwines two lives in a single story of profound and touching sisterhood.