Paolo Civati

Maìn - La casa della felicità

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the decades.

Inspired by Giancarlo Marinelli's novel "Amori in stazione", the film talks about the fate of marginalization in the decay of a small railway station, where prostitutes, homosexuals, pimps, conscripts, immigrants, gypsies and ordinary people meet. Characters out of time and space. Artificiality is their language to get out of the rawness of the landscape.

100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria.