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Naples, early 2000s. Grazia is twenty-four, a Hematology resident living between two worlds: the hospital, where she is learning to become a doctor, and the bourgeois homes where she helps her mother Assunta, a lifelong domestic worker. Quiet and reserved, Grazia struggles to recognize herself in the role she is building. Within her family she is still “the daughter”; at the hospital, not yet fully “the doctor.” Her identity remains suspended between who she has been and who she is becoming. An unexpected event forces her to step out of the shadows and confront how others see her, challenging her relationship with her mother, her sense of duty, and her deep need to finally be acknowledged for who she truly is. Through an intimate journey made of small gestures, silences, and quiet resistance, Grazia begins to separate from the past in order to find her own voice and her place in the world.
- Year2026
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageItalian
- CountryItaly
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorGian Piero Rotoli
- ScreenwriterGian Piero Rotoli
- ProducerGian Piero Rotoli
- CastIole Carolà, Gianni Parisi, Margherita Mazzucco, Nunzia Schiano, Vanessa Compagnucci & Pino Calabrese
- CinematographerLorenzo Sisti
- EditorAngela Anzelmo
- Sound DesignSimone Usai
- MusicMarco Guazzone
Naples, early 2000s. Grazia is twenty-four, a Hematology resident living between two worlds: the hospital, where she is learning to become a doctor, and the bourgeois homes where she helps her mother Assunta, a lifelong domestic worker. Quiet and reserved, Grazia struggles to recognize herself in the role she is building. Within her family she is still “the daughter”; at the hospital, not yet fully “the doctor.” Her identity remains suspended between who she has been and who she is becoming. An unexpected event forces her to step out of the shadows and confront how others see her, challenging her relationship with her mother, her sense of duty, and her deep need to finally be acknowledged for who she truly is. Through an intimate journey made of small gestures, silences, and quiet resistance, Grazia begins to separate from the past in order to find her own voice and her place in the world.
- Year2026
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageItalian
- CountryItaly
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorGian Piero Rotoli
- ScreenwriterGian Piero Rotoli
- ProducerGian Piero Rotoli
- CastIole Carolà, Gianni Parisi, Margherita Mazzucco, Nunzia Schiano, Vanessa Compagnucci & Pino Calabrese
- CinematographerLorenzo Sisti
- EditorAngela Anzelmo
- Sound DesignSimone Usai
- MusicMarco Guazzone