Synopsis
Vittorio Morin is a Chilean who emigrated to Venice, Italy, during the military dictatorship. Of Italian stock and a pasta expert, his parents ran a small fresh pasta business in Buenos Aires , Vittorio has built a new life for himself in Italy as a master pasta-maker in a medium-sized factory. With his difficult personality, left by his wife years earlier, a convinced single man and father of a 26-year-old daughter, Vittorio has shut himself in a world of certainties, marked by his job at the pasta plant, his bar friends Antonio and Carlo and his daughter Laura. The only concession he makes to sensibility is making and cooking pasta. Because Vittorio is a great master in the field; to him pasta is alive, sensual, artistic. With it he can express himself freely, because pasta doesn’t betray you, you can control it, it is safe.
But however much you want to keep shutting yourself in your certainties, life is movement, evolution. Laura is preparing, with the NGO she volunteers for, an exhibition on Latin American dictatorships, bringing back to the surface old wounds and memories her father would rather have forgotten for ever. What’s more, Vittorio’s beloved pasta plant is in financial difficulties and has to eventually shut down. This is how, in a few days, his world is put into question and dismantled bit by bit.
Vittorio’s story intertwines with that of the pasta factory workers and its entrepreneur Mondelli : the winding-up of the Enterprise and the dramatic reality of job losses. Losing everything forces Vittorio to open up to the world and meet the other. And through a new relationship with his brother, who never left Argentina, through friendship and solidarity with the other workers, Vittorio manages to heel old wounds and find a new life dimension, enriched by the hope of a new love.