Toronto 2013

with Vinicio Marchioni, Miriam Karlkvist, Valentina Lodovini, Andrea Bellisario

produced by Jean Denis Le Dinahet and Sébastien Msika

produced by b24 Film, Madakai

International Sales: DOC AND FILM INTERNATIONAL

Grazia lives in a small town on the Strait of Messina, in the extreme South of Italy, with her father Cristiano who sells dried fish. She was 12 when her older brother Pietro emigrated to Germany and never came back.

Today Grazia is 17 and her body has grown in a very masculine shape: wide shoulders, no breast, short hair and she often gets treated like a boy, not only by her schoolmates but also by her own father who sees in her a replacement for Pietro, both at his fish shop and his life.

One night, after fighting with her father, Grazia enters into the sea and sees a human figure, in which she recognizes the face of her brother. She decides to search for her brother...