by Rolando Colla
Ikendu is forced to flee from Mali via Libya and Italy to Bellinzona in Switzerland, where Patricia is living an unfulfilled life with her two daughters, whose absent fathers have taken their own paths. Both Ikendu and Patricia are outsiders; he is looking for freedom and a fulfilling life beyond oppression and war; she is on a quest for happiness and security, for a husband, lover and a father to her children. As their contrasting lives converge, they begin to believe to have finally reached their destination. However, still trapped in their own lives, love soon finds itself riddled with doubts and hidden truths. With poetic elegance and haunting intimacy, Zurich-based director Rolando Colla tells of dignity, trust and innocence.