Near the Italian border with Slovenia, a young woman is found dead on the shores of a lake, Lago Superiore di Fusine, in Tarvisio (UD), a place that emanates a blend of melancholic calm and mystery, similar to the atmosphere evoked by the film. The story’s tragic ending has its roots in the secrets of the victim’s small, isolated community in the province of Udine whose view of the mountains, where pale sunlight peeps through the greens and browns of the vegetation, embodies the noir atmosphere that frames the story. The main location is the village of Moggio Udinese, home to the little girl whose disappearance is at the heart of the story. The operational base provided for Commissioner Sanzio (Toni Servillo) is in the 18th century Palazzo Lupieri in Preone. Villa Tartagna Colla in Tricesimo serves as the clinic where the commissioner’s wife is being treated. Sanzio himself lives in Udine where he meets Chiara, the mother of the dead boy in Via Verdi.
Near the Italian border with Slovenia, a young woman is found dead on the shores of a lake, Lago Superiore di Fusine, in Tarvisio (UD), a place that emanates a blend of melancholic calm and mystery, similar to the atmosphere evoked by the film. The story’s tragic ending has its roots in the secrets of the victim’s small, isolated community in the province of Udine whose view of the mountains, where pale sunlight peeps through the greens and browns of the vegetation, embodies the noir atmosphere that frames the story. The main location is the village of Moggio Udinese, home to the little girl whose disappearance is at the heart of the story. The operational base provided for Commissioner Sanzio (Toni Servillo) is in the 18th century Palazzo Lupieri in Preone. Villa Tartagna Colla in Tricesimo serves as the clinic where the commissioner’s wife is being treated. Sanzio himself lives in Udine where he meets Chiara, the mother of the dead boy in Via Verdi.
A beautiful, young woman is found dead on the shores of a lake. Commissioner Giovanni Sanzio is investigating her murder in the small community where she came from, unearthing troubling secrets.
