Yerel Buti tiyatrosundan çoğu işçi ve çiftçilerden oluşan bir grup amatör oyuncu topluluğu; İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonrası hayatlarını yeniden düzenleyen bir grup işçi ile ilgili kısa bir romanın pasajlarını okur.

Workers, Peasants

In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They intend to restore the city from the rubble and re-start life, in imitation of the women of Messina who rebuilt their city, destroyed as it was by an earthquake. Oscillating between respect and suspicion, co-existence between group members is tense. Things become complicated when an envoy from the government arrives to say that nothing there belongs to them. The film is a free adaptation of fragments of the novella ‘The Women of Messina’, by Sicilian writer Elio Vittorini.

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).