After a flashback set in a bakery in 1943, the story returns to the present day: after grocery shopping, Giovanna (Mezzogiorno) and Filippo (Nigro) are arguing as they walk over Ponte Sisto (the Roman Ghetto behind them), they meet an elderly man having trouble and decide to take him home, an apartment on via Donna Olimpia in the Monteverde neighbourhood in Rome. The story of Davide (Massimo GIrotti) and his beloved is gradually revealed to Giovanna and her neighbour Lorenzo, its secrecy mirroring the covert nature of their own affair. They met in a bar in piazza dell’Emporio in Testaccio and set off in search of the old man who they find sitting confused at the foot of the nearby fountain of the Amphoras.
This is when the pair decide to look into Davide’s past: their first stop is the tables of the Bartaruga, in piazza Mattei dominated by the fontana delle Tartarughe, seen behind Giovanna in a shot. Giovanna and Lorenzo’s journey into the past starts from via Paganica in the Roman Ghetto, site of the fabric shop where Davide collapsed under the weight of his memories the evening before; close by is piazza Paganica where Davide recalls a little girl watching her mother’s deportation in a flashback. The journey takes Giovanna to Davide’s home in piazza in Piscinula in Trastevere where she discovers that he was a famous pastry chef and ends in the ancient quarter of Campitelli which includes the Park of Monte Caprino where Giovanna and Lorenzo kiss. In the same area, in the shadow of the Theatre of Marcellus, a fountain was the secret hiding place for the love letters and notes that Davide and Simone left each other sixty years before.
After a flashback set in a bakery in 1943, the story returns to the present day: after grocery shopping, Giovanna (Mezzogiorno) and Filippo (Nigro) are arguing as they walk over Ponte Sisto (the Roman Ghetto behind them), they meet an elderly man having trouble and decide to take him home, an apartment on via Donna Olimpia in the Monteverde neighbourhood in Rome. The story of Davide (Massimo GIrotti) and his beloved is gradually revealed to Giovanna and her neighbour Lorenzo, its secrecy mirroring the covert nature of their own affair. They met in a bar in piazza dell’Emporio in Testaccio and set off in search of the old man who they find sitting confused at the foot of the nearby fountain of the Amphoras.
This is when the pair decide to look into Davide’s past: their first stop is the tables of the Bartaruga, in piazza Mattei dominated by the fontana delle Tartarughe, seen behind Giovanna in a shot. Giovanna and Lorenzo’s journey into the past starts from via Paganica in the Roman Ghetto, site of the fabric shop where Davide collapsed under the weight of his memories the evening before; close by is piazza Paganica where Davide recalls a little girl watching her mother’s deportation in a flashback. The journey takes Giovanna to Davide’s home in piazza in Piscinula in Trastevere where she discovers that he was a famous pastry chef and ends in the ancient quarter of Campitelli which includes the Park of Monte Caprino where Giovanna and Lorenzo kiss. In the same area, in the shadow of the Theatre of Marcellus, a fountain was the secret hiding place for the love letters and notes that Davide and Simone left each other sixty years before.
Unfulfilled in her marriage and life, Giovanna meets and falls in love with her neighbour Lorenzo. Their relationship becomes more intense when they begin investigating the identity of an old man who has lost his memory and is obsessed by events that took place in 1943.
