SYNOPSIS

What is the connection between the places we inhabit and the walls of our bodies? And how do we survive among the ruins of the soul and those of the buildings? Fallen Houses is born from a memory: 1980, the Irpinia earthquake. In a car, a father holds his son in a protective embrace, while outside, buildings crumble – it is time to leave. In narrating this abandonment, the voice becomes polyphonic, revealing other stories of those forced to leave their walls behind: a young Malian, defying his father’s wishes, who crosses lands and seas in search of a future; a Ukrainian boy, in his new life, searching for his father’s familiar face in the strangers he meets. What remains in this wandering? The lost homes of the past do not abandon us: now those walls walk with us.

GÉNÉRIQUE

• Director

  Gianluca Abbate

• Production

  Claudio Esposito

• Referent

  Gianluca Abbate

• Sales

  Gianluca Abbate