Genre: Drama

Language: Italian with English Subtitles

Director: Fiorella Infascelli

Cast: Maya Sansa, Andrea Di Stefano, Pier Paolo Lovino & Salvatore Lazzaro

Released: 2004

Duration: 100 Minutes

Rating: R18 contains sexual violence

Distribution: Palace Films

A wedding dressmaker's workroom. Young bride-to-be, Stella, is trying on a sumptuous white gown while the shop owner and designer, Franco, adds his magic final touches. The same day, at sunset, under a tree in the fields, the girl goes through an horrendous violent ordeal that changes her life.

Maya Sansa (The best of youth) gives a lacerating performance as Stella. As a consequence of the living nightmare Stella gives up on the idea of getting married, breaks off her engagement and relationship with fiancé Andrea, and leaves university. To expunge the previous horrors Stella gets work in a nearby village, at a patisserie full of delicious cakes and pastries where she'll start her life again from scratch. Every day Stella walks along a white road winding through the fields. And one rainy day, on the road, Stella again meets Franco (Andrea Di Stefano), the dress shop owner. Franco’s disarming personality and good looks sweetly win her over. Transformed, together they turn their backs on the past and make a fresh start. But the truth lies just below the surface, threatening Stella’s capacity for happiness once again.

“Outstanding acting by Maya Sansa in the lacerating portrayal of a young victim of a group rape” Il Tempo.

“Director Fiorella Infascelli brilliantly sets a dark story of impossible love in the idyllic countryside” La Repubblica.