One sweltering summer, a group of children is scampering around in a sunny yellow field reaching out as far as the eye can see. Among them is Michele, who, whilst exploring some abandoned ruins, discovers the prison of a boy his age.
For the film, Salvatores chose the vast golden wheat fields on the border between Apulia and Basilicata, which extend from the Ofanto Valley near Candela (FG) to Mount Vulture, between Leonessa, Melfi, and Rapolla, as the setting for the fictitious Apulian town of Acqua Traverse. This is where Niccolò Ammaniti set the book of the same name upon which the film is based.
One sweltering summer, a group of children is scampering around in a sunny yellow field reaching out as far as the eye can see. Among them is Michele, who, whilst exploring some abandoned ruins, discovers the prison of a boy his age.
For the film, Salvatores chose the vast golden wheat fields on the border between Apulia and Basilicata, which extend from the Ofanto Valley near Candela (FG) to Mount Vulture, between Leonessa, Melfi, and Rapolla, as the setting for the fictitious Apulian town of Acqua Traverse. This is where Niccolò Ammaniti set the book of the same name upon which the film is based.
It’s the summer of 1978. During a bike ride with a group of friends, Michele discovers a boy his age hidden away in a hole underground and befriends him. It turns out that the local community, including his father, is involved in the kidnapping.
