Genre: Romantic Drama

Language: Italian with English Subtitles

Director: Donatella Maiorca

Cast: Valeria Solarino, Isabella Ragonese, Ennio Fantastichini, Giselda Volodi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Released: 2009

Duration: 102 Minutes

Rating: R16 Violence, sex scenes and content that may disturb

Distribution: Umbrella Entertainment

2009 Rome Film Festival: In Competition

Nineteenth century Sicily. A house made of turf at the top of a cliff. A hidden scandal.

Angela (Valeria Solarino) isn't like the other girls of her age. In her early twenties she still runs, smokes and plays with boys. She fears nothing and nobody, not even her tyrannical father, the powerful guardian of the mines. Angela's soul mate and best friend is Sara (Isabella Ragonese) and as their relationship intensifies, it crosses the boundaries of acceptable female behaviour in Sicily at that time.

Shut up inside a cave by her tyrannical father after she has refused to marry the man chosen for her, Angela is rescued by her mother who succeeds in persuading the parish priest to change her daughter's name and gender in the register office. It is only one letter, a mere, harmless letter. An "A" becomes "O" and the world is turned upside down. The chains that had imprisoned an existence suddenly disappear and it is now Angela who is in charge of the isle.

An intense and scandalous love story; stunningly visual with strong acting from all protagonists. From the novel "Minchia di Re" by Giacomo Pilati.