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The Lights in Other People's Houses

Chiara Gamberale


Independent and charismatic Maria, a manager in a seemingly ordinary apartment building, dies suddenly in a car accident, leaving behind a six-year-old girl and a letter in which she reveals that her daughter's real father is not an astronaut, as she was told. Mandorla is the fruit of a night of lovemaking in the former laundry room of the apartment building. So who is the father? All the men in the apartment building are suspects and one of them is bound to confess. After a long discussion and with the consent of their families they settle on the wise (for them), but not so wise (for the child) decision not to undergo a DNA test, but to raise the little girl together. This fateful decision is the occasion for the human drama that paradoxically unfolds and indirectly calls each of them to take responsibility.



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