L'amore di Màrja

"Marja's Love" is not a love story.
It is the story of love and of coherence in love. Marja, a Finnish girl, is twenty years old. The period is the 1970s and her loves are peace, faith in the possibility of building a new world with Fortunato, her companion.
Fortunato is Sicilian and he and Marja speak two different languages but they have the same dreams. Together they go to live in a commune and have two children, Alice and Sonia. Now Marja has two other great loves: her children. She teaches her children peace, the power of dreams and fantasy, and freedom of the mind. But when the dream of revolution ends for the rest of the world, and Fortunato tells Marja it is time to become "adults" and "adapt" to life, Marja cannot abandon her hippie style and dreams. She cannot bring herself to do it.
She follows Fortunato to Sicily, to his home, but she never stops talking to Alice and Sonia about a submerged world, a world to be discovered, a world of peace. And despite the prejudices, this external environment that rejects integration becomes the "submerged world" that Alice and Sonia are always looking for.
They search everywhere for a world of peace, a world without differences, even when as adults they feel abandoned by Marja, betrayed by the sacrifice of a woman who, for her children, erases herself.
Or so it seems. - www.lamoredimarja.it