A transparent house, where only the metal frame remains visible. In this intimate, yet exposed space we witness the inner turmoil that engulfs Olga, forty-year-old mother of two, when she learns that her husband Mario is leaving her for a young woman. In her adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s work, Gaia Saitta shows us how this middle-class Italian woman is slowly overtaken by a kind of savagery surging up from the depths of her being. Once a model wife, conforming to society’s standards, she becomes violent, vulgar and unpredictable. No longer knowing day from night, forgetting if she has slept, she loses touch with all that keeps her tethered to reality, including her children. In the midst of this destructive whirlwind, Gaia Saitta goes beyond the cliches of middle-class family drama, taking a deconstructive, political, feminist approach.

Hugues Le Tanneur

« Un régal de finesse et d’intelligence au service des femmes, et à la mémoire de celles qui se sont perdues. » RTBF