In a deserted city bathed in a ghostly light, a young girl wanders clutching an egg she guards with devotion, without truly knowing what it contains. Her silent routine is interrupted by the arrival of an enigmatic young soldier, who seems to know more than he cares to admit and who follows her like an ambiguous shadow. In the landscape of ruins, among cyclopean statues and empty cathedrals, the two embark on a journey of waiting and questioning, while religious symbols and apocalyptic omens emerge from the depths of the city. The mystery of the egg becomes the heart of a metaphysical journey that questions faith, memory, and identity.
"Forty years later, it still appears to us as an impenetrable but intoxicating forbidden dream: in which we consciously renounce reason, to abandon ourselves to the call of the unknown. Timeless. [...] Because, all things considered, it is impossible to remain indifferent to the dreamlike call of a jumble of images so equally comfortable and disturbing, capable of intoxicating, shocking and – even more radically – making the human eye and thought doubt. And the more we immerse ourselves in this magmatic flow of undecipherable snapshots, the more brutally fascinated we become: perhaps because we rationally understand that faced with such an (in)tangible vision and infinite interpretative possibilities, Reason loses any function or reason to exist." (Daniele D'Orsi)
