by Marialice Tagliavini
with Giuseppina Turra, Marialice Tagliavini
tutoring Giuliana Musso
In a villa on a hill overlooking the city, Mother and Daughter are organizing a big party. The guest of honor is the head of the family, husband and father of the two women. Everything is ready: garlands hang from the walls and jazz music plays on the record player. The guest of honor's wish is his gift for the party: a perfect, expensive purebred dog. The memory of Zac, a champion Doberman who mysteriously disappeared, still lingers in the house. At the foot of the hill, near the villa, there is a small kennel, a shelter for abused and abandoned dogs run by a rough Guardian and her young Assistant. The civil protection agency has ordered the Guardian to evacuate the kennel within 48 hours because the area will certainly be flooded. While Mother and Daughter go in search of the perfect purebred dog, the Guardian and her Assistant look for a Noah's Ark that can save all their mongrels. Two distant worlds that will touch only for the duration of the storm, a brief moment but enough to trigger in the Daughter a sudden desire for disobedience that will set off a whirlwind of revelations, confessions, and redemption. The mirroring of authentic and fragile creatures, the recognition of one's own “perfect” unhappiness, rebellion, and finally the universal flood, prelude to a new world... in this unstoppable progression of unexpected events, the doll's house on the hill will be flooded with a new awareness of the gratuitousness of love . As in any self-respecting comedy, in the end the initial roles are reversed: those who had control lose it, the ‘weak’ take care of the ‘strong’ and love ceases to be a reward for the best performance.
