Sasia is an isolated little village nestled in the mountains of northwestern Italy. It can only be reached via a steep, rough dirt road that winds through dense forest.
Emilia, a thirty-year-old woman, chooses to settle there after serving a prison sentence for a serious crime she committed in her teens. Bruno, who carries his own heavy past and deep loneliness, also chooses Sasia as his home.
Both retreat there in the hope of easing their wounds and continuing life in peace — or perhaps simply of enduring their punishment more quietly. Yet what they achieve instead is a far more intense confrontation with their inner darkness and buried secrets.
Does Sasia help them find the cracks in their darkness through which light might enter?
Only a great writer like Silvia Avallone could take on such a heavy story, approaching her characters without prejudice, with delicacy and lightness, neither judging nor condemning them.
