Edoardo Melone

Rosario Russo, un restaurateur de cinquante ans, s’est installé depuis douze ans en Allemagne où il mène une vie paisible, entouré de sa femme Renate, de son fils Mathias et de son ami Claudio. La vie tranquille de Rosario va prendre un tournant dramatique le jour où deux jeunes italiens arrivent sans prévenir dans son restaurant. L’un d’eux, Diego, n’est autre que le premier fils de Rosario, qu’il avait abandonné quinze années auparavant pour fuir un passé qu’il aurait préféré oublier. Rosario s’appelait alors Antonio De Martino, il était l’un des plus féroces et des plus puissants camorristes de la région de Caserta...

Vento Di Terra (wind of the earth) is an Italian film about an 18 year old boy (Vicenzo Pacilli) from a poor suburb of Napoli, Italy who finds himself burdened by expectations of supporting his mother after his father dies from an unexpected heart attack. Working in a blue-collar factory job, Vince soon finds that he does not have enough money to support himself, let alone his frail recently widowed mother. His sister departs to Cassano to finally end her employment drought by getting a job in the local FIAT factory. Vince is left alone to support his mother. He gets involved in a heist, and then out of guilt confesses his sin to a close family friend, who suggests he joins the Italian army. In the army Vince meets a new found friend through his training period, and they are soon deployed together to the war torn state of Kosovo in the Former Yugoslavia, where he is exposed to the brutality of war.