The Return of the Prodigal Son

In Italy immediately subsequent to the war a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict settle in a village in ruins They intend to restore the city from the rubble and restart life in imitation of the women of Messina who rebuilt their city destroyed as it was by an earthquake Oscillating between respect and suspicion coexistence between group members is tense Things become complicated when an envoy from the government arrives to say that nothing there belongs to them The film is a free adaptation of fragments of the novella The Women of Messina by Sicilian writer Elio Vittorini