The fate of two women: united in their fight for political ideals, torn apart by an unforgivable betrayal.
From 1970s Rome to present-day Cologne: the story of a friendship marked by political upheavals. Cruci is looking back at an eventful life. The love of her life is gone, her son Rocco has left home, and the Communist Party of Italy has long since been dissolved when news reaches her of the death of her friend Lucia. They met in the late 1970s at the communist school Frattocchie, where they were trained as communist functionaries. They were inseparable even though they had come from very different backgrounds: Cruci from a working family in Palermo, Lucia from a bourgeois family in Rome. They were united by a common ideal: the thought of promoting “the women’s cause”. But Cruci fell in love, got married, and followed her husband to Cologne. Her life turned out quite differently from what she had imagined, and it was a life without Lucia – they broke up over an unforgivable betrayal. Still, she decides to go to Lucia’s funeral in Rom with her son Rocco. While Cruci must face her memories, Rocco begins a journey into the political and personal past of his mother, into a life he knew nothing about until now.
