Kolja. Una storia familiare

During summer, in a house of a country by the sea, a separated couple hosts three Ukrainian children: they are Nataša, the Kolja brothers and Katia arrived in Italy from their foster home for spending some “healing vacations”. Natalia and Marcello are trying to put the pieces back together for their compromised relationship, facing an experience that proves immediately to be unsettling: What do they expect from these extraneous children, difficult to decipher and already marked by life? And what can they give to them, which illusion of harmony and trust, if they are the first no longer well oriented in their own blocked and failed existence? At the end of a season divided for all of them, between tenderness and disorientation, everything seems to be like before, but with new doubts and suspended expectations: the kids in their distant foster home; Marcello fully committed to his Latin studies and Natalia reabsorbed by her skittish temper. Until when, during the conflict broken out in Ukraine, they lose the traces of the restless and fragile Kolja; and for the couple, the search of the missing child leads to new questions that become now urgent: on the responsibility, on the sense of being parents and on the difficult – possible? – construction of an irregular family, that gathers in it the delicate balance of five uncertain and intertwined destinies.