Synopsis

It's never too late to learn to be children, nor to reconnect with the present. Renzo and Camilla are not just any father and daughter. He's ninety-two, she's seventeen; a lifetime separates them, or even more. Camilla has always felt a little ashamed of this man, who was already gray when she was born, whom she's never seen as young and strong as her friends' fathers. And so, when Renzo falls seriously ill and is admitted to a clinic from which it soon becomes clear he will never return home, Camilla has the unspeakable feeling of finally being able to dive into the future, without looking back. Her father's illness forces her to realize that nothing can be built without first coming to terms with one's roots, that you can't lose someone without trying to get to know them, and that perhaps she still has a little time left to truly be his daughter. So she begins to search the past to discover the boy Renzo was so many years ago, when war raged across Italy, when young people climbed the mountains, fired guns, suffered hunger and the cold, trying every day and night to make sense of their actions. The time when Renzo was "Tempesta," commander of a partisan brigade. For Camilla, reclaiming her family history and a collective memory that has never ceased to resonate will mean finding a new perspective on the world, on others, and on love. With a writing of uncommon sensitivity, capable of laying ambushes and always revealing new corners of being, Camilla Ghiotto gives voice to a generation aware of having to fight battles different from those of the past, but no less decisive. Because freedom is never achieved once and for all.