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The central theme of the project is the trip to Stockholm that Grazia Deledda made in December 1927 to collect the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded to her in 1926. During the long and nerve-racking journey, accompanied by her husband, Grazia experiences a series of flashbacks that retrace some fundamental moments of her existence, such as one of the first "encounters" with snow or the death of her sister.
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At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with the other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo’s citizens -including children - abandon their usual occupations and unite to build their own road. Giulia, the new schoolteacher, comes from the North with a mission to teach standard Italian to help bring cultural cohesion with Africo and the rest of Italy. But she will have to contend with the local mafioso Don Totó, who is determined to ensure this the town remains cut off, and thus, under his power.
