Avanti, parla

Giovanna is sixty-six years old and wears her thick, long, white hair tied back. She dresses and lives as if cloistered. She is a retired manual labourer, yet she lives in an expensive apartment overlooking the Tiber, and this is not her only contradiction. Her only company are books, music and good wine, sometimes a little too much. Her life is turned upside down with the arrival of a couple and their children as new neighbours: Maria, young, light-hearted and enchanting; her partner Michele, a musician, father of little Malvina, and Malcolm, a socially-conscious interesting teenager. Giovanna’s solitude and the couple’s vitality are separated by nothing but a thin wall, and soon the woman with the white hair becomes a kind of babysitter-cook-guardian-confidante, fascinated and bound to the little girl’s grace but also by the dynamics between the couple, which she cannot help but observe with voyeuristic curiosity