Philippa, a British teacher living in Turin, Italy, has watched helplessly as her husband and friends have fallen victim to drug overdoses. To compound her desperation, the Carabinieri – who are complicit in the actions of Turin's biggest drug dealer – have completely ignored her repeated offers of information.
We follow Philippa as she assembles a bomb and places it in the office of the drug dealer, and then confesses her crime by telephone to the police, forty seconds before the bomb is due to explode. Having witnessed the loss of so many innocent young lives at the hands of this man, she feels this to be the only course of action left to her, and is willing to pay the price for what she is doing.
During her interrogation following arrest, it is revealed to her that her plan has gone terribly wrong and that instead of the intended victim dying, four innocent people including two children have been killed in the explosion. The police are convinced she is part of a terrorist group and refuse to accept her reasons for the attempted murder of the drug dealer. With the unexpected help of Filippo, a sympathetic young police officer, she escapes detention and is given a second chance to kill her victim, and with nothing to lose she takes divine justice into her own hands.
A probing exploration of the modern world and its moral choices, in which we witness Philippa's transformation from a grieving widow to a wanted fugitive on a journey through retribution, redemption, innocence and crime. A mesmerising art film, full of refined camera work and scarce in dialogue, with a slowly evolving story of the relationship between two people caught in a nightmarish situation. With magnificent cinematography and breathtaking aerial shots over the Tuscan countryside, it is a subtly told story of fate and destiny.
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