Short Animation involving a mixture of hand-drawn and live action shots mixed together, based on a story by Tonio Guerra. 

 

 

Alberto is a painter who travels to a little town in the mountains to see his ex-wife about their official divorce procedure at the Court. While he’s on his way, the landscape begins to change miraculously: in the middle of winter the trees begin to blossom. In twenty-four hours of their last day as a man and wife — life manifests vividly. Mutual admiration and reproaches have been all expressed by now, and something that for many years they couldn’t have told each other or — even more importantly — let each other feel, is finally exposed. One complaint, made half-jokingly as an observation — that Alberto had drawn and described their life in his graphic novels that he later sold to the publishing houses — will unfold into a revelation at the very end. After many years following their separation Alberto publishes a book, in which he reveals a mystery discovered on that day. Perhaps it’s a many couples’ mystery.

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It’s a film about the delight of people coming together. About the time when it’s possible to really feel each other and it’s even more valuable in the times, when ‘there not enough time’, when life speeds up, but is often empty and vain. People are close to each other yet not together. They don’t hear or feel each other. Ironically in this story the mutual understanding is reached when the spouses are about to get a divorce in the Court. It’s devastating not to let this Divine Providence into your life. You are coming closer, when you leave.

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Running time: 22’