Where it was filmed 'The White Space'

Maria is over 40 years old and leads an independent life. She dedicates her time to reading, her evening school students, and afternoon trips to the cinema. It is there that she meets the man who will give her her daughter, a little girl who is born premature and teaches her to wait and share her fears.

Naples provides the backdrop for the film: more specifically, Maria’s home in the historic centre in Salita Pontecorvo, which is permanently infested by ants. From the terrace you can see (thanks to the magic of cinema) the dome of the Cathedral. We see the protagonist in several different locations, from the hospital, the exteriors of which are actually those of the Complesso degli Incurabili, part of the Museum of Sanitary Arts of Naples, to the various classrooms in which she teaches her students as they prepare for their middle school exams (worth mentioning is the Sala dei busti in Castel Capuano). Then there’s Piazza del Plebiscito, the Church of San Giovanni a Carbonara, on the steps of which Maria tries to update Pietro on the condition of their newborn baby, and the Museo di Capodimonte, which Maria visits with a student, stopping, in the rooms set up with contemporary installations, to look at the Large Black Cretto by Alberto Burri.