Drama
The wounds that determine who we are often have their roots in distant times we know nothing about. That’s the case with Nadja, a successful forty-year-old lawyer who left her past behind when as a teen she abandoned the mountain village in Northern Italy where she grew up. But now her paternal grandmother is dying, so Nadja must return and face what she most fears about herself – the things she has tried to remove from her life, above all her belonging to the Slovenian ethnic minority. But in the middle of winter, in that claustrophobic landscape of mines and darkness close to the Slovenian border, Nadja ends up promising her grandmother a burial in accordance with the ancient Slovenian ritual: a disturbing and illegal custom that forces Nadja to confront the memory of her hated father, revealing the real reasons for her parents’ unhappy marriage and the deep roots of her own traumas. A painful excavation of her memories that presents Nadja with a dilemma: take revenge or learn to forgive?
