Directed by: Gabriele Salvatores
Released: 2003

Run time: 97 minutes
Classification 15

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A reminder of true childhood, of its fears and speculations... of the way that the shape of the adult world forms slowly through the mist

In Southern Italy, Michele, a bright ten-year old, finds a filthy, incoherent boy hidden chained in a cellar. He is too frightened to speak of it but puts together what he learns from television and begins to connect the boy with a high profile kidnapping that has the whole nation on edge. When Michele's parents learn of his discovery they warn him to forget whatever he saw.

Gabriele Salvatores, born 1950 in Naples, is an Academy Award winning film director and screen writer. Salvatores debuted as a theatre director in 1972 founding in Milan the Teatro del’Elfo, for which he directed several avant-garde pieces until 1998. In that year he directed his third film Marrakech Express, followed by Turne, which was screened in the Uncertain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 Salvatores won international praise for Mediterraneo, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.