La Prima Cosa Bella

Plot. It is the story of a family reconciliation. The farewell of Anna, a still beautiful mother who at the point of death continues to radiate an irresistible and contagious vitality, with her twochildren who are now adults: Bruno and Valeria. It is an opportunity for Bruno, who has lived elsewhere now for more than twenty years, resigned to a grumpy anaffective fate, to return to the small town in which he was born and raised, and to come to terms with the vicissitudes of a past he had wanted to wanted at all costs to forget. The chronicle of the present is thus intertwined with the memory of family events with a fictional flavor: the party at the Pancaldi bathing establishment where the mother by surprise was elected Miss, her father Mario's obsessive impatience with the attention malicious attention of the town's males for that too-pretty wife of his, Aunt Leda's envy and her maneuvers to seize the husband and children of that chatty sister, the wandering in search of a sitemation after being kicked out of home, with the two little sons, always heartened by the unwavering optimism of that cheerful and unconscious young mother of theirs. Around them, the petty respectability of a small town, the malice of the many fickle and fragile men, who would like to appropriate Anna's beauty, but who deep down do not have the courage and the strength...