This story is a celebration of life in its tragicomic fullness. It is a story of humans looking for a way to be happy in dire circumstances. It is a tale about finding belief in a wasteland.
We decided to use a spiritual movement as the microcosm of the film. Cult members are by nature unsatisfied people who are looking for new answers. They also have to make a huge act of faith in order to believe in something that is considered nonsensical by the world outside. Working with them allowed us to explore two important themes: faith and power.
We then juxtaposed the big, existential claims of the spiritual movement with the trivial day-to-day life of an Italian village, in which everybody knows each other.
We populated it with three fragile and profoundly human characters: a door-to-door salesman that wants to be a guru, a nurse who joins the movement to solve her love problems, an cynical man who criticizes the spiritual movement but deep down wishes he could believe in it. The story followed naturally, showing us that life can be wrong and deceiving, but will never cease to amaze us and make us smile.