Gustavo Caputo

Salento in southern Italy. A small family-run textile factory is forced to close and three generations of women must now struggle to keep the wolf from the door. In order to settle their debts their home is sold. Now that her brother has emigrated, it falls to energetic Adele to find a way out of their crisis.

À Disperata, un village abandonnée au fin fond des Pouilles dans le Sud de l’Italie et dont le nom est déjà un mauvais présage, le maire, au tempérament mélancolique, ne se sent pas à la hauteur de son rôle. Il doit faire face à l’opposition pugnace d’affairistes qui voudraient bétonner le front de mer. Seule sa passion pour la poésie et la littérature lui apporte du réconfort jusqu’à sa rencontre avec deux frères, minables malfrats, joyeux malandrins, qui, à leur manière, aideront le maire à se ressaisir.

The wealthy businessman Vincenzo realizes that he is a father too absent, but also that his two sons and 1aughter are spoiled and unable to support themselves economically. So Vincenzo stages their fraudulent bankruptcy and runs with their children in Taranto, in his old house. The boys are struggling to settle, but Vincenzo is confident about them and hope that they will soon find a job in the city. Meanwhile, an impostor blackmailer, who wants to marry the daughter of Vincenzo, arrives in Puglia, to expose the scam.

Salento in southern Italy. A small family-run textile factory is forced to close and three generations of women must now struggle to keep the wolf from the door. In order to settle their debts their home is sold. Now that her brother has emigrated, it falls to energetic Adele to find a way out of their crisis.