The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Alice and Mattia also move on their own axes, alone with their personal tragedies. As a child Alice’s overbearing father drove her to a terrible skiing accident, and then to anorexia. When she meets Mattia she recognises a kindred spirit, and Mattia reveals to Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he abandoned his mentally-disabled twin sister in a park to go to a party, and when he returned, she was nowhere to be found. These two irreversible episodes mark Alice and Mattia’s lives for ever, and as they grow into adulthood their destinies seem irrevocably intertwined...

Festivals: Venice 2010, Toronto 2010, Tokyo 2010, Stockholm 2010, Hong Kong 2011