Following “Sworn Virgin” and “Figlia Mia,” the successful Italian duo of director Laura Bispuri and actress Alba Rohrwacher impressively brings a condensed family constellation to life. On a perfectly ordinary winter's day, Nena (Dominique Sanda) gathers her family in her apartment right by the sea. Everyone is there to celebrate her birthday: her husband Umberto, son Vito, daughter Caterina, second cousin Isabella, daughter-in-law Adelina (Alba Rohrwacher), ex-son-in-law Manfredi with his new girlfriend Joana, granddaughter Alma, housekeeper Lucia, and her daughter Grazia. And then there is Paco, Alma's peacock. While everyone waits for a lunch that will never be served, the unusual pet falls in love with a small dove in a painting. This impossible love culminates in an unexpected event that shakes the whole family: the guests are urged to look each other in the eye and reveal who they really are... "What good is beauty to a bird if it cannot fly? Bispuri's family then finds their answers just as randomly as the questions came: talking for the sake of truth, until even those who have fallen silent speak again. Because then even death makes sense again. Bispuri finds an exciting stylistic device for the moments of “rethinking,” which is somewhat reminiscent of the pause in Oslo in Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World. Here, however, it is not a city but a family, but here too, Bispuri's magnificent ensemble [...] suddenly falls silent, and it is only a violin that plays, playing, and with this style, those present are transformed, their gazes and thoughts change, and Vladan Radovic's suggestive camera seems to actually penetrate behind their thoughts, at the very moment when the thoughts arise. This is great poetry and wonderful film art. Because it arises unconsciously and, like a breath of air that is only visible on a pane of glass for a few moments, it also disappears again." (Axel Timo Purr, on: artechock.de)