Cast: Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz
On vacation in Rome, an Italian housewife and mother of two grown up sons, Rosalba (Lucia Maglietta), gets left behind on accident by her tour bus ferrying her large family back home. She calls her husband who in turn rants in a typical irate husbnd's fashion. While awaiting their return Rosalba quite uncharacteristically, yet giddily as one on a secret road of discovery, embarks on a hitchhike. Not knowing where at first but headed in the general direction back home, she halts in Venice. Instincts her only guide, she comes alive renewing life for herself, her senses awake. Her extended stay for a couple of days stretch on to weeks and then more. Meanwhile her husband who with a habit of seeking extramarital pleasures cannot fathom this change in his predictable, familiar wife sets a detective on her trail. He does so more to assuage his ego than any attempt to salvage their relationship.
A movie embodying hope, redemption, and the kind of fulfilment one eternally seeks through life.
Rating: Four stars.
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