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By Bille AUGUST

BRILLIANT PICTURES LTD. - as SALES All rights, World / PROD

Romance - Pre-Production 2024

On a remote Italian island in the early 1960s, a teenage boy haunted by memories of the war falls in love with an older girl who holds a dark secret. Based on the novel "Tu, Mio," by Erri De Luca.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Romance, Social issues, Book adaptation
- Countries
- ITALY, USA
- Director(s)
- Bille AUGUST
- Writer(s)
- Erri DE LUCA, Greg LATTER
- Cast
- Tim ROTH, Isabella ROSSELLINI, Tom HOLLANDER, Jasmine TRINCA
- Producer(s)
- Marc BIKINDOU (BRILLIANT PICTURES LTD.), Sean O'KELLY (BRILLIANT PICTURES LTD.), Mark HAMMOND (Cristaldi Pictures)
- Synopsis
- Ischia, 1955. In the waters of the island in the bay of Naples, Marco (16) spends his days sailing with Nicola (52), a hardened fisherman who tells stories about the sea and the war, that is still very fresh in his memory.
  
  Shy and curious, Marco takes advantage of his holidays on the Italian island to fill his eyes with the images of a world that is so distant from his native London. On vacation with his parents at his maternal uncle’s house, he will live a summer that will change him forever after meeting, within the group of friends of his older cousin Daniele (21), the enigmatic Caia (20), with whom he will fall in love immediately and for the very first time.
  
  A beautiful complicity is established between the two in which Caia reveals her painful past, with a childhood stolen by the SS and a father who preferred to throw his daughter out of a train in Yugoslavia, rather having her to experience the horrors of a concentration camp. The stories of Nicola and Caia, meanwhile, will awaken in Marco an uncontrollable resentment for the SS, personified in a group of rude German tourists who tour the island, and through whom Marco will try to avenge Caia’s pain.