The creative documentary ‘Scalamara’ tells of the dream of a man of 71 who is still looking for his mother who abandoned him as a child and who has become over the course of his difficult life an unattainable chimera.
The story of the painful initiation of an adolescent into the world of adults in the outskirts of Rome.
“The longed-for upside-down world which haunts the girl’s premature disenchantment is woven through the narrative in a clear and coherent web of symbols" (J.Young - 'Pardo News' Locarno Film Festival)